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The Book Club: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler with Brad Thompson

The Book Club

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The Toothache Is a Symbol of His Moral Conscience

"The tooth is a symbol of his moral conscience. His keeps gnawing and gnawing at him," he writes. "He can't get away from that, no matter how much of the logic of history he has." He says it reminds you of idiologues and fanaticists who spend their lives so focused on ideas they're not sensible to world around them.

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