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To have pride in ancestry, the picture tells us, is asinine arrogance. Only stupidity is hereditary: the descendant of a noble line of asses is still an ass.
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There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a way that we can clearly see the pages. It is a family tree of sorts, with eight rows of seventeen standing donkeys.
An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
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