The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Con… - W. G. Sebald
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Con…
- W. G. Sebald
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it. - W. G. Sebald
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
We all have appointments with the past. - W. G. Sebald
We all have appointments with the past.
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir.… - W. G. Sebald
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir.…
How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning? - W. G. Sebald
How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for noth… - W. G. Sebald
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for noth…
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. - W. G. Sebald
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exp… - W. G. Sebald
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exp…
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane … - W. G. Sebald
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane …
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