Status Updates From A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

The fiction that photographs can “tell us” anything—but isn’t all formulation, even of things that have really happened, more or less a fiction? Less, if we content ourselves with a mere record of events; more, if we try to formulate in depth? And the more fiction we put into a narrative, the more likely it is to interest others, because people identify more readily with formulations than with recorded facts.

jedes Wort erinnerte sie wieder an etwas Schreckliches,

man stand nur wie stecksteif herum, schwindlig von dem langendreer vorleben

und alles Persönliche verlor sich ins Typische. Dann war sogar das Traurigsein nur eine kurze Phase der Lustigkeit