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My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as a captain.

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W. G. Sebald

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Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to – a notion so universal, it’s enscribed in all religions. If you didn’t, they might exact revenge upon the living.

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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June 13, 2024

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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June 13, 2024

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to – a notion so universal, it’s enscribed in all religions. If you didn’t, they might exact revenge upon the living.

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