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Each of them, victim, perpetrator, and murderer's son, is inextricably linked by the varying dimensions of their moral nature. Assaying the monumental impact of the Holocaust, this species-shattering event, the tetralogy elucidates a truth about humanity: the Holocaust has forever defined the species as indelibly damaged, capable on a molecular level of killing and consuming its own. The reader experiences this unvarnished--perhaps axiomatic--truth about humanity, which no revisionist can deny. 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In the face of this fact Freese never pulls punches. Rather, his deft, brutal, and insightful words punch and punch until dreams' respite are no longer an option and insanity isn't an excuse. --David Herrle, Author of Sharon Tate and the Daughters of Joy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. Freese's haunting lament might best be explained (at least to me) by something Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about Herman Melville's endless search for answers to questions that perplexed him all his adult life. Melville was incessantly obsessed with what one might call the why of it all-life, death, metaphysical mysteries. Similar to Freese, Melville was repeatedly afflicted with a dark and depressive state of mind. --Duff Brenna, Professor Emeritus CSU San Marcos Mathias B. Freese is a writer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His recent collection of essays, This Mobius Strip of Ifs, was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award of 2012 in general nonfiction and a 2012 Global Ebook Award finalist. 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Mathias Freese wants his retreat from the societal it to be a brave safari for the self rather than cowardly avoidance, so who better to guide him but Henry David Thoreau, the self-aware philosopher who retreated to Walden Pond to live deliberately and cease the hurry and waste of life? 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The profound responsibility of answering the question Who was Nina? is left to the lone memoirist: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI can say or write anything I want about her.There is much writerly power in that. I am the executor of her probate in all things now. She is mine now in ways she could not be when alive. I am the steward of her memory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreese ends up analyzing himself, putting the me in memento and the i in mori, thanks to ever-giving Nina posthumously providing a therapeutic mirror or Rosebud, which Freese appropriates from \u003cem\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/em\u003e. But Freese mourns more over the burden of existence than over its loss. 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