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'But he suddenly wonders: what is left behind when you cut out a part of your life like a tumour and try to replace it with light?'

'... the tearing down of the Wall has robbed him of his Berlins, his two half-cities.'

'Etienne wants to add something. Wants to write on Axel until the pen breaks through the skin, slips into a vein and infects his blood with all the alphabets of the world.'

'There are too many such things in his world, Etienne thinks: ghost films, ghost stations, ghost guards, a ghost lover. And his ghost country of origin.'

'We'll call ourselves Stunde Null. We'll make music together, music that no one has ever heard before.' Like wild children, he thinks. Like gods. Like guides in the dark.

'There is nothing as intimate between men as being strangers...'