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The Most Painful Part of Blessings
The most painful part of beatings is the insult which they imply. The pain he caused me was not from any insults or any blows. An old friend of mine had a congenitally dislocated hip. He was glad to be capable of working in spite of it, since the physically disabled were almost certainly sent to death. A few minutes earlier, the same guard who struck me had told us deprecatingly that we pigs lacked the spirit of comradeship.