"The trails of light which the moths seemed to leave behind them...were merely phantom traces created by the sluggish reaction of the human eye...It was such unreal phenomena...the sudden incursion of unreality into the real world, certain effects of light in the landscape spread out before us, or in the eye of a beloved person, that kindled our deepest feelings, or at least what we took for them."
-- W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz
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