Since this Virus Hysteria started, I kept largely out of places where a Face-Nappy was required. But recently, it has become (human-rights-violating) "law" where I live to wear one of those dangerous-to-your-health face-masks. So, as someone, born and educated in Germany, I "followed orders", during my recent visit to a doctor's surgery.
In the waiting room, there was a cute little toddler, I smiled at him because he was just SOOO terminally cute, but, against my normal experience, this little cutsie did not respond at all.....and I realised that my smile was not accessible to him, hidden as it was by my ghastly/nasty face mask. The target of my smile was sooooo young, that it suddenly struck me: this little toddler probably has not yet seen a stranger (even a well meaning one) smile at him/her/it. What damaged generation are we bringing up ?
They really do damage them early, don't they !!
A cynical critic of Nabokov's "Lolita" put it, somewhat crudely perhaps, this way:
"get there before the pubics".
The following scene took place in a land and a time far away (*), when we were still allowed to breathe, to meet, to go to church/synagogue , to sing, to celebrate a wedding.... in short to live free from the shadows of an encroaching totalitarianism delivered to us via the Trojan Horse, that suspicious Trojona Virus, delivered by our mostly corrupt politicians....
(*) about 6 years ago in England
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