Essays and Reflections.
 
Walter Benjamin.
 
Harcourt, Brace & World: 1968. First American edition. Octavo. Hardcover in a jacket. A vintage ex-library copy. Good.
 
“From this story it may be seen what the nature of true storytelling is. The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. It does not expend itself. It preserves and concentrates its strength and is capable of releasing it even after a long time.”