the long goodbye

“I look at a photograph of the poet Rene Char alongside Heidegger. The one celebrated as a French resistant to the German occupation, the other denigrated for sympathizing with early Nazism at one point in his life. The photo dates from the postwar years. The two are pictured from the rear; with caps on their heads, one figure tall, the other short, they are taking a walk in the outdoors. I am very fond of that photo.” - Encounter (2009) by Milan Kundera