<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Not sure where the 60,000 figure comes from, but Pokler is addressing Leni in his mind here, and the "already listed for taking" might refer to the German census of Jews. When Leni was a child,</font></font></font><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">she had already been listed in the Jewish census, her fate - to be taken to a concentration camp - already sealed.</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenzählung</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Laura<br></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Jul 28, 2013 11:57 PM
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<br>Subject: GR translation: already listed for taking
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>V398.25-31 (P404.41-405.6) If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resonant spooks here, the candleflame memories, all trace, particle and wave, of the sixty thousand who passed, already listed for taking, once or twice this way. Did you ever go on holiday to Zwölfkinder? . . .<br>
<br></div>Why are these sixty thousand described as "already listed for taking"?<br></div>
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