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More and more it seemed to Ed that there was a vicious downside of American life, a greased skid of opportunism, cut corners, easy drugs, easy sex, a morality that grew cloudier each year.
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But maybe there is something about what the Germans did that exercises a deadly fascination over us - something that opens the catacombs of the imagination. Maybe part of our dread and horror comes from a secret knowledge that under the right - or wrong - set of cir****stances, we ourselves would be willing to build such places and staff them. Black serendipity. Maybe we know that under the right set of cir****stances the things that live in the catacombs would be glad to crawl out.