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prefer to keep it in the safe enclave of entertainment
or salutary token of “some great woe that nothing
in the world will ever put right” (so long as it’s the
right kind of wrong). Remember it is Johnson who
used the convenient half-truth of describing Sebald’s
work as “a highly literary form of antiquarianism”.
Perhaps it is fairly explained by the fact that they
are reviewing a work of non-fiction. But, as I hope
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to have made clear here, On The Natural History
Of Destruction is a coda to Sebald’s extraordinary
fiction, and for such prominent and serious critics
to overlook this is curious indeed. But I would go
further. These reviewers, mere literary critics, have
used book reviews to become accessories to the
crime of killing innocent people, and their fingers
are stained not black, but red. �
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