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A Xerox copy of the screen door’s angles
…….lies sun-stamped onto the green street door
(Lyn Vellins, ‘Dancing with echoes’, Contrappasso)
27 Tue Oct 2015
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A Xerox copy of the screen door’s angles
…….lies sun-stamped onto the green street door
(Lyn Vellins, ‘Dancing with echoes’, Contrappasso)
14 Wed Oct 2015
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When the truck crossed over to the other shore, Adam thought of a huge city, entirely of glass, in which you could see the endless blue of the sky.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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I pictured Götz and Meyer all white, covered in flour and couldn’t help but laugh.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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Later that afternoon, while he was playing cards with the members of the Jewish Administration, his hand trembled and drops of coffee splashed the black king of spades and the red two of diamonds.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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Aux Etats-Unis, les feux arrières d’une voiture doivent obligatoirement être couleur ambré, tandis qu’ils doivent être blancs en Europe – ce qui oblige les constructeurs à produire deux modèles différents selon le marché de destination.
(« Si vous n’avez rien suivi au Tafta, le grand traité qui effraie », Le Monde 13 octobre 2015)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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Since carboxyhaemoglobin has a characteristic cherry-red hue—Götz, or it could be Meyer, always clicks his tongue when referring to cherries—these asphyxiated victims do not turn blue as others do, rather their skin acquires a pinkish tinge and their lips turn bright red. This explains why the Serbian prisoners are thinking: ‘Lipstick’ as the first heap of corpses tumbles towards them.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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How surprised they must have been when they first opened the back door of Götz and Meyer’s truck and out billowed the dense, bluish cloud of poisonous gas!
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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The completed family tree, drawn on a large piece of white paper, lay on the desk in my sitting room. I carefully wrote out all the names and dates, underlined in black marker all the family lines, circled in red all the names of people who were still alive.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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All you need to do, however, is to wonder how each of those 9,500 men, women and children felt when they donned the yellow armband or the six-pointed star, and history begins to crumble and fail.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)
13 Tue Oct 2015
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inThey crossed the Sava only in the truck driven by Götz and Meyer, or shrouded in white sheets, stiff and dead, on stretchers carried by Jewish men across the frozen river, the ones who had been kept from the firing squad, and the Jewish women who hadn’t died yet.
(David Albahari, Götz and Meyer, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać)