In Bernhard Schlink’s novel, the bond between a grandfather and granddaughter is shadowed by delusions from the past.
“Growing up in my career, when I used to listen to and watch the likes of Tupac, I noticed how they rolled and fraternized with some officials. I even wrote in my old songs that I one day want ...
The high commands on both sides were appalled. Their armies defied them! They fraternized! Neither side wanted it known. And so the Christmas truce was covered up. Can’t keep up enthusiasm for a war ...
THE BIRDCAGE – Near one of the spots where British and German soldiers fraternized for the unexpected truce, a dark, dirt track veers off the road and meanders into the gloom of the woods.
This is also how it relates to South Africa today. However, the confused ANC cherishes Putin and Russia in the delusion that the old left-wing Soviet Union with which the ANC fraternized ideologically ...