Go, Went, Gone

by Jenny Erpenbeck

Many things he cares about, things that still work or that he just likes, will be thrown away. Then an invisible link will connect the garbage dump, where, for instance, his old alarm clock will end up, to the household of the man who can afford his blue onion pattern china, and the link will be that they both once belonged to him. After his death, of course, no one will know about that link.

there’s no better way to make history disappear than to unleash money, money roaming free has a worse bite than an attack dog, it can effortlessly bite an entire building out of existence,