Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but … - Anna Funder

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Anna Funder

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

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