--- layout: post title: "girl-among-grains" date: 2021-02-01 categories: art author: Mahdi --- ![girl-among-grains](/img/arts/girl-among-grains.jpg) "That evening in Marienbad, said Austerlitz, I could not admit to myself how right everything Marie said was, but today I know why I felt obliged to turn away when anyone came too close to me, I know that I thought this turning away made me safe, and that at the same time I saw myself transformed into a frightful and hideous creature, a man beyond the pale." - Austerlitz, Sabald