The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. (Siegfried Kracauer)

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

Siegfried Kracauer

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