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16. Skeptics would voice the concern that aluminum would be much more
expensive than steel; in addition it would pose ecological problems because of
the large amounts of energy which would be consumed in transforming the raw
material bauxite into utilizable aluminum.
17. There would remain only one reaction for the Federal Bank, obligated by law
especially to secure the stability of prices and currency: raise the interest rates
again, one more turn on the spiral of recession in Germany and worldwide.
18. At a symposium in Munich, the author Cees Nooteboom summed up his stance
thusly: “Writers are people who write about countries which do not exist in
reality, or who give to countries which probably do exist mountains which
don’t.”
19. Potential misunderstanding is a method in his novel; the man of letters
proclaims that a good book should be “polyinterpretable,” and reminds us of an
image of Umberto Eco’s: the more possible interpretations, the better runs the
machine that is the book.
20. Finally, fantasy is the power which has as its effect “that we can endure that
life on Earth which we have between both of our infinite absences.”
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