“When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. ‘You mean you don’t want to fight the occu-pation of your coun-try?’ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and in-vasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical sy-llables in unison.”

• Milan Kundera