The darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind…
Regents Canal, Lisson Grove, Westminster, NW8
…how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself…
Leake Street, Waterloo, Lambeth, SE1
…in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Hackney, N16
From WG Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001)
