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“Things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experience they have had with us inside them and are—in fact—the book of our history opened before us.”
“Things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experience they have had with us inside them and are—in fact—the book of our history opened before us.”
—W.G. Sebald
from Campo Santo, 2003
(trans. Anthea Bell)
from Campo Santo, 2003
(trans. Anthea Bell)
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| Shomei Tomatsu
- Statue of an angel shattered by the atomic bomb at Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki, 1961. |