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Friday, April 13, 2012

War and Objects and Benjamin

Check this sentence out by Walter Benjamin: “The Storyteller” in Illuminations: “A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.”

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