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Sebald, in a nutshell:

"I spent six weeks living
in the wreck of a marooned barge,
staring at the walls as they gathered rust,
and I thought about the bombing
of Hamburg and Dresden during
World War II. Then I moved
into an abandoned zoo and spent
each day staring into empty cages,
imagining how it must have felt
to be a tiger in that time and
place, and I thought about
Poland during World War II...."