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26 Cards in this Set
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Julia regards fixed appointments as intolerable constraints on her freedom. |
- About Julia |
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I know that she needs to be alone but suffers from it too. |
- About Julia |
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The edge of the linoleum table has come loose and without thinking she is stroking it flat. |
- Link to Julia's perceptions of the GDR |
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Well... You don't look German. |
- In reference to Anna as an outsider. |
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Stickle brick nature of it. |
- Anna's love for the German language |
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I am fading, blending into the kitchen walls. |
- Anna feeling like an outsider |
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I come from a place so remote, so primitive that people there have not been labeled and numbered. |
- Anna |
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A small still woman. |
- About Miriam |
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She is so slight that the voice comes from nowhere and everywhere at once... It wraps us up. |
- About Miriam |
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... They break you, just like fiction. |
- Miriam |
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Does telling your story mean you are free of it? |
- Anna about remembering |
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Bruises will develop... Like a picture form a negative. |
- Remembering |
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To remember or to forget- which is healthier? |
- Remembering/Forgetting |
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What were the dangers of knowing? Or the dangers of ignoring the past and doing it all again, with different coloured flags? |
- Remembering/forgetting |
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THe drunks dress either in tracksuits or old business suits. |
- Metaphor for waste products of capitolism |
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A monstrous expanse of grey concrete, designed to make people feel small. |
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Cranes are picking over holes open as wounds. |
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In this, I think, it is much like East Germany itself. |
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A large Mercedes emblem rotates, waltzing to the new tune here. |
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the most perfected surveillance state of all time. |
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The house of a Thousand Eyes |
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This man wants to play spy games seven years after the fall of the wall. |
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In a massive act of ideological redecoration. |
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All I understand is that it only took forty years to create two very different kinds of Germans, and that it will be a while before those differences are gone. |
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We are discriminated against... in this- this Kapitalismus. But we learn fast... |
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You know there's no real unity in this country... Even after seven years. |
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