Idle Things | Robert Rubsam

archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 16 Nov 2025 17:57:42 UTC All snapshots from host thebaffler.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Skip to content Search Subscribe Latest Current Issue Past Issues Events About Store Donate Account Dark Mode Settings Robert Rubsam , November 10, 2025 Idle Things Notes on ruination A soldier looks upon the ruins of the Reich Chancellery (1945). | Wikimedia Commons WORD FACTORY W O R D F A C T O R Y Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Kurt Beals. New Directions, 96 pages. 2025. THERE IS A STORY in one of Hebel’s almanacs about a man lost in a mine collapse. The man went to work in the bloom of his youth—and fifty years later, when a group of miners come upon his body in the pit, they find him much the same. His body, soaked in ferrous sulfate, is so miraculously preserved that the man still looks “as if he had died only an hour before

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