He was involved in the assassination of Fake Ploeg Senior the night of the assault together with Truus. He was later seen in an anti-communism protest outside of Anton's apartment. He was a classmates of Anton before the tragic event. Son of Fake Ploeg Senior who got murdered on the day of the assault. He seems to be impulsive and quite quick to act as shown in the beginning. He was also killed during the night of the assault. Fake Ploeg Seniorįather of Fake Ploeg Junior, a nazi collaborator, and neighbor of the protagonist Anton Steenwijk. His family was killed off on the night of the assault and was forced to go live with his aunt. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Therefore such a person has his face turned toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. But nothing exists in the future it is empty one might die at any minute. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. This is the kind of concept that does not please philosophers, but then, inventions of the heart have little to do with those of the intellect.īesides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that is hard to imagine. THere is, of course, something wrong with both these images, for if time is movement, then it must be moving through another kind of time, and the secondary time through yet another and thus time is endlessly multiplied.

To ore passive ones, it is rather like a raft drifting along with the tide.

To dynamic personalities, the present is a ship that drives its bow through the rough seas of the future. “The way we word it, it's as if our backs were turned to the past as we look toward the futre and that is, in fact, how we actually think of it: the future in front, the past behind. The only thing is, we mustn't become too much like them, mustn't destroy ourselves altogether, otherwise they'll have won in the end.” But they'll lose in the end, because they have no light in them. Not them they can simply remain themselves, that's why they're so strong.

We first have to do away with something inside ourselves before we can do away with them. But they don't have that problem they can do away with us without any qualms. We've got to become a little bit like them in order to fight them so we become a little bit unlike ourselves. For them everything is very simple, but for us it's more complicated. We hate hate itself, and for this reason our hate is better than theirs.īut that's why it's more difficult for us. How is that possible? It's because we hate them in the name of the light, I guess, whereas they hate only in the name of darkness.

And yet we've got to hate Fascists, and that's considered perfectly all right.

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