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City Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | In Buchmendel, for example, he indicates symbolically, and with great force, the destruction of cosmopolitan tolerance by the nationalist madness of World War I in the fate of a single person. |
 | | The café owner understands, as does everyone else, that Buchmendel is a contributor to, because he is a conservator of, civilization, and being a civilized man himself, he is honored to welcome him. |
 | | Buchmendels life has fallen apart, as has the civilization to which he was a valuable contributor; now homeless, he soon dies of pneumonia. |
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