While reading and fantasizing
about the French Resistance
before dawn,
I come across the term
“le Refus Absurde,” used to describe
those actions early
in the Nazi occupation when,
even though it seemed certain that
the Reich would triumph and
last a thousand years, individuals
would begin to resist even though
they felt the effort was futile. They’d
slash a tire, cut a cable, write
a subversive poem, start
an underground newspaper. Armed
resistance only came later…Many
spoke of moments when le Refus Absurde
crystallized within them, climaxes
of incipient struggle; for some it was seeing friends
beaten or marched away, for others
the look of contempt on the faces
of German soldiers as they marched
into towns like a swarm
of sneering Twitter comments.
November 12th, 2016 at 7:19 pm
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