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      Excerpt from Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, translation copyright © 2001 by Anthea Bell (Hamish Hamilton 2001, Penguin Books 2002). Used by permission of Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Same excerpt, copyright © The Estate of W. G. Sebald, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.

      Excerpts from “Kurt Wolff Tagebücher, October 23, 1914, to June 28, 1915,” used by permission of Deutsches Literaturarchiv-Marbach.

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      Every time we reached the page which described the snow falling through the branches of the trees, soon to shroud the entire forest floor, I would look up at her and ask: But if it’s all white, how do the squirrels know where they’ve buried their hoard? . . . How indeed do the squirrels know, what do we know ourselves, how do we remember, and what is it we find in the end?

      —W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz