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I recently went
to my second trip

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to the former GDR in Germany.

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And having grown up
during the Cold War era,

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I felt like in a
lot of ways that I

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had this psychic
landscape of East Germany

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and had mythologized it.

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And it was very interesting
to actually visit it

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and to come to terms with
it in a whole new way.

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So I've spent the last year and
a half watching German films

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and trying to somehow
inhabit that era.

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"An Autopsy of an Era."

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That's how it was then, a
knife through cartilage,

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a body broken.

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Animal, and animal
is mineral ash.

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A window smashed.

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The collective howl as a
general alarm followed by quiet.

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Boot black night, halogen
hung, tape snaking

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through a stealth machine.

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Later, shattered glass
and a checkpoint charm.

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The clasp of a tourist.

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Trap bracelet.

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An arm.

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A trinket.

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Snap goes the clamshell.

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The film in the brain
case preserving the sense

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of the drench, the angle of the
leash, the connecting collar.

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A tracking long shot.

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The descent of
small town darkness.

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