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for like the names of the deceased
...Yet another activity, which one could pursue with an even better conscience, involved puttering around at the desk for an hour with newly purchased exercise books or with text books.
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Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938 (Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, eds., 2002) : 400 : link