" . . if you wanted to draw a lesson from Anonymous, it might be this: read and memorize as many classics as you can, in as many languages as you can. They may keep you going better than canned kohlrabi." Gabriele Annan's conclusion to her take in The New York Review of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City, an anonymous account of life in the post-war rubble, fending off drunken Russian soldiers.
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