Friday, June 12, 2009

Daily Dose

From What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920 - 1933, by Joseph Roth

PANOPTICUM*

'Thanks to a cannily symbolic layout, the Chamber of Horrors was just one step away from the Fairy-tale Hall, and the Rulers of Europe a curtain's thickness from the Fun House."

From The Philosophy of the Panopticum, translator: Michael Hofmann

*a waxworks display or museum

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