Word: breendonk
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...while for James this atmosphere was one in which history glimmered, offering up its inspiration, for Sebald, the impending darkness serves as a metaphor for the inscrutability of the past and the impossibility of self-knowledge. The narrator first realises this during his visit to the Breendonk fortress in Belgium, which was transformed into a concentration camp by the Nazis: “The darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were...
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