Tag: W.G. Sebald
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Windows
When I’m sitting in the back of class, feeling useless as a TA, I stare out the window to remind myself the world exists. It’s an oddly solitary experience in a room filled with chatter, solitary and strange. As we’re inevitably many floors up, all you can see are rooftops. The only movement is steam,…
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Thomas Browne
I was first introduced to Thomas Browne in one of my favorite books, W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. How could I not be intrigued by Sebald’s distillation of Browne’s thought? What we perceive are no more than isolated lights in the abyss of ignorance, in the shadow filled edifice of the world. We study the…
Dan Yingst 