>Investigators believe the crematory had stacked the
>corpses for up to 15 years.
>
>"They just piled them on top and then piled more on top. And then
>they just left them," Sperry said. "I wish we had a good explanation
>for this, but we don't."

"Whosoever would grace this frail cottage, in which poverty adorns every
corner, with a rational summing up, would be making no inapt statement nor
overstepping the mark of well-founded truth if he called the world a general
store, a customs-house of death, in which man is the merchandise, death the
wondrous merchant, God the most conscientious book-keeper, but the grave the
bonded drapers' hall and ware house."

 - Johann Christoph M�nnling, Theatre of Death, or funeral orations, 1692.

Used by Walter Benjamin as a motto to his section on allegory and
trauerspiel in Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen
Trauerspiels) .
Tom Walker

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