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Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

Walter Abish
Truth, Brain, Accepting
Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?

Walter Abish
Dream, Memories, Hands
"How German Is It". Book by Walter Abish, 1980.

In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

Walter Abish
Past, Training, Desire
Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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