The population decided—out of sheer panic at first—to carry on as if nothing had happened.
- “Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures
This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down.
W.G. SebaldAt one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!
W.G. SebaldTag: pain loss memories changes consuming-melancholy
Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life, the children as much as myself. It seems to me sometimes that we never get used to being on this earth and life is just one great, ongoing, incomprehensible blunder.
W.G. SebaldTag: melancholy connections jazz-writing
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
W.G. SebaldTag: world-war-ii germany atrocities bombing devastation on-behalf-of-german-civilians
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