about a hope today of a thinking man s coming word in the heart. he hoped in vain. yes salon s only thoughts could not be reassured his visit to berlin in december nine hundred sixty seven became a trip to the heart of darkness he went to the starting point of the violence the place where death a master from germany did his work railway car by railway calm. and high to bahnhof this was the station where thirty years earlier he had stopped on his journey to paris the day after the christan after. go to the butcher s hooks he was to write in a poem salon went to put susie where so many opponents of the nazi regime where