I love the Wayside School books so much. I’ve been reading my son one and it’s so good. Perfectly captures how strange it is to be a child surrounded by baffling adults and confounding rules. I disliked being a kid but loved these books.
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![The idea of freedom as an inviolable human trait resonated powerfully with the French, who'd endured a humiliating surrender and four years of German rule. Even the Nazis could not take that kind of freedom away. In September the previous year, weeks after Paris was liber-ated, Sartre had published a rousing paean to his fellow citizens, declaring, [highlighted] "Never were we freer than under the German occupation.... Because the Nazi venom seeped into our very thoughts, every accurate thought was a tri-umph. Because an all-powerful police force tried to gag us, every word became precious as a declaration of prin-ciple. Because we were wanted men and women, every one of our acts was a solemn commitment." [end highlighting] This was a message the French—including those whơ'd done little to support the Resistance-thrilled to hear: They were not victims but heroes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bx62qdva7swtet66b7h3z26o/bafkreibpafsic7bchuquuikxv2psopekxftu3k32libh3llssixfq2shly)
