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There’s a large set of German novels and autobiographies of the 1920s saturated in anxiety that anticipate the Nazi takedown of civilization. Many of them were written by people with clinical histories of depressive illness and social alienation. Most people had their Eyes Shut Wide, while these people had Eyes Wide Shut.

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