Fantasy Sentences

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin, the work describes a time when the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things began to change, and everything slowly became something else. It was unclear whether transformation was a symptom of the disease or a means to escape it. The contagion affected everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women, and children, as well as their thoughts, dreams, and memories. An old woman once told the narrator how all memories turn into trees, though her words were difficult to make out. She said she could hear the trees singing: "To be a body, to be any body." After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look closely to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? "A way out, a way out?"