Status Updates From The Emigrants

"Deciphering his tiny handwriting, which not infrequently moved to and fro between several languages, was an arduous task, one I should probably never have accomplished if those words, committed to paper almost 80 years before had not, as it were, opened up of their own accord."

"... one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day, hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract."