Sunday, August 11, 2002
Conversations with Conrad: pre-war

CONRAD: This is a photograph of me standing next to a pre-war poster encouraging conscription.

ME: Wow, propaganda.

CONRAD: Yes, but pre-war, we never called it that.

CONRAD: This is a photograph of my mother from our summers in pre-war Italy. That particular summer, my father and I dilligently restored the family's summer villa to pristine condition. Oh how brave we were pre-war.

ME: Fascinating. But don't you have any photos from after the war?

CONRAD: After the war?

ME: Yeah. After the war? Post-war?

CONRAD: There was a war?

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