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Die Walküre.

"...for the record, as of today, I’ve sold 763 hardcovers; 127 paperbacks; 273 digital copies; 212 audiobooks: for a total of 1375 books." —Harold Rogers via

"...the stop signs on the street still say STOP and the sign above the charming little public library says LIIBRARB which is almost right, but all the books inside are unreadable."

"TODTNAUBERG

Arnica, eyebright, the
draft from the well with the
starred die above it,

in the
hut,

the line
—whose name did the book
register before mine?—
the line inscribed
in that book about
a hope, today,
of a thinking man's
coming
word
in the heart,

woodland sward, unlevelled,
orchid amd orchid, single,

coarse stuff, later, clear
in passing,

he who drives us, the man,
who listens in,

the half-
trodden wretched
tracks through the high moors,

dampness,
much."

—Hamburger's Celan

"I wrapped the Rider-Waite deck in a silk scarf my mother had given me and kept it under my pillow like a forbidden animal breathing quietly in the dark."