Sublime

Die Furcht vor dem Verlust der Welt im Sinne ihres Verstummens, ihres Grau- und FarblosWerdens, begleitet auf der kulturellen Ebene das Reichweitenvergrößerungsprogramm der Moderne von Anfang an; Weltverlust bezeichnet geradezu die elementare und konstitutive Grundangst der Moderne.

The Colossus of Maroussi, Remember to Remember, and The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder,

When I got out of the train in Lovošice after about an hour, I felt as if I had been travelling for weeks, going further and further east and further and further back in time.

and it dawned upon me, said Austerlitz, that what I now saw going past outside the train was the original of the images that had haunted me for so many years.

Even solitary trees were located with infallible accuracy by the airborne beetles which spread the disease. One of the most perfect trees I have ever seen was an almost two hundred-year-old elm that stood on its own in a field not far from our house. About one hundred feet tall, it filled an immense space. I recall that, after most of the elms in t

but it only dissolved all the more and was overlaid by the memory, surfacing in my mind at the same time, of the shining glass in the display windows of the ANTIKOS BAZAR on the west side of the town square, where I had stood for a long time around midday in what proved to be the vain hope that someone might arrive and open this curious emporium.

bewilderment,

Anarchic, wandering, they read about their hometowns in the pages of out-of-town newspapers.