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Old 10-24-2014, 08:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
Frownland
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"In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work. And in fact my hope was realized, up to a point; for I have seldom felt so carefree as I did then, walking for hours in the day through the thinly populated countryside, which stretches inland from the coast."
W. G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
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