Sublime

supplanted,

Hitchcockian protagonist,

Canetti, and Borges, too, I think—two very different men—said that just as the sea was the symbol or mirror of the English, the forest was the metaphor the Germans inhabited.

He couldn’t seem to stop the flow of his thoughts to his mouth.

consternation.

At least, I no longer knew in what period of my life I was living as I journeyed down the Rhine valley.

semaphore,

contemporary compulsion to produce robs things of their endurance [Haltbarkeit]: it intentionally erodes duration in order to increase production, to force more consumption.