read a lot. deep and mysterious. in hindsight it was really insane of me to dive into this upper-level course after barely having studied German on Duolingo after high school and watching Dark without subtitles. talk about [[Dunning Kruger]]! I'm glad I did it, though. I like the word *Vergangenheitsbewältigung*. I kept coming back to Benjamin's *Berliner Kindheit* and Sebald's *Die Ausgewanderten*.