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Kertész is a master of the hideous, thought-provoking inversion, which in his case was provoked, as this book reveals, by the odd acts of unbelievable kindness which assured his survival of the Holocaust: "What is truly irrational and genuinely inexplicable is not evil but, on the contrary, good".
Why must you plague me with so many hideous thoughts?
The lengths that people go to hide hideous thoughts — and the concurrent sense that we do not know those among us — is an unnerving phenomenon.
I will pass over the question of diagnosis (it's possible he was not simply depressive) and the question of how such a beautiful human being had come by such vividly intimate knowledge of the thoughts of hideous men.
It looks like a particularly hideous HR Giger creation, and the thought that there are thousands of those things crawling around in my eyelashes right now is almost too much to bear.
Say to yourself: "I'm having a thought that my nose is hideous".
"Some kind of Surrealist exercise meant to inspire me, but also prevent me from thinking the perverse, looping thoughts that come unbidden: I am hideous.
And so we are actually looking at the thought that some shredded wheat, vile, hideous individual, could possibly take over from him.
Only rarely does the thought or judgment that they are hideous actually come to the forefront of his mind.
If it appears that they put a lot of thought in effort into choosing the hideous impedimenta, do them a favor and ask about its origins.
For example, if you think "My face is hideous" stop and say to yourself "I'm having a thought that my face is hideous".
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