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So after I went through
this process of crossing out

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Waldheim's memoirs, I
realized that I hadn't really

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gotten it right.

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So I decided to start over again
and cross out his memoirs again

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and find a different version
of the world inside it.

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Now I'll read to you
the second time around,

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which is crossing
out the same text

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but finding a very different
account of reality.

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In this version I tried to
be as honest as possible.

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"In November last year
when every day was

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a weary round of doubts
and tension in the heart,

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I became interested in the
fate of a machine which

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had been launched into
creation and disappeared

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during my boyhood.

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The thought of it
roaming our system

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unconcerned about the
policies of the regime

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was a relief from the strains
and suspicions at home.

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In the days I would
visit the library

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and in the night overhead sought
refuge in the parallel journey.

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Abode, I read, was a
deeply etched record

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of the world that floated away.

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I believe it was
full of popular tunes

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and beautiful
technological problems.

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Perhaps an observer
far in outer space

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might study this
information in days to come.

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He would have to weigh
carefully in his heart

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the words of a man who
was, by some quirk of fate,

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a spokesman for humanity.

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Who could give voice
to all the nations

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and peoples of the
world and, so to speak,

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the conscience of mankind.

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This man, legend states, likely
knew of the mass execution

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of groups of people as a
capable officer required

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to collect and analyze data,
prepare reports, conduct

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investigations, and, otherwise,
facilitate operational projects

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in the war.

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Indeed, at the time he
did not express concern

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at this unfortunate action.

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To a degree this
is understandable.

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His voice failed.

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Now after years of
passed the record

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is carrying his
intelligent clear words

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as Secretary General
of the United Nations

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to a government high above.

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Thus I built up a
dossier about him

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over a considerable
period of time.

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His story had for me
some kind of freight

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which entered my own voice
and cast a shadow of unreality

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over everything.

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I found this beguiling.

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The summer heat
relentlessly continued.

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At home my wife sent
for a parcel of china

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that one day will come.

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Whether this will happen
in the far distant future,

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I cannot predict.

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Even if he had intelligence
of disquieting matters,

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I do not wish to judge here
the figure of Waldheim.

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The dead do not
cease in the grave.

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The world is water
falling on a stone.

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True.

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I began to consider drawing
lines from his history.

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If I were to cross out words
from this representation

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of the world, will
the ruins see peace?

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To cross out the prisoners
bodies frozen in the camp

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would not erase
the war, of course.

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But I did cross that
insubstantial world out."

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