Interesting. When I was reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf two years ago, I recall having a nightmare in which I was an SS officer working at a concentration camp. I was carrying a submachine gun and patrolling a barbed-wire-lined perimeter. And like all of my dreams, it was fragmented, and I suddenly found myself surrounded by dozens of starving Jews, all of them with a tattered Star of David on their prisoner uniforms, all of them telling me I shouldn't be reading that book.

I heeded their advice and promptly set Mein Kampf aside for five or six months. Take it from me: it's a frightening book that'll completely fuck you up.

Now, imagine immersing yourself in a eight-thousand-page history of Nazi Germany: you might learn a thing or six.

Constantly reading about horrors makes every part of your life a little horrible. For the first six months of my year of Hitler, I didn't relate the symptoms I was having--the grisly nightmares, the lousy moods, the sudden, random bouts of despair--to the fact that I had immersed myself voluntarily in one of the darkest periods in recorded human history.

It's a little reassuring to know that I wasn't the only one having nightmares.

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[Alok]

+1 a galliee. L atmosfera sembra davvero spessa e anche i colori mi piacciono molto. Poi Namco-Bandai per questo tipo di giochi una garanzia.