W.G. Sebald, Wertach, Germany, 1950
"Since father had returned home from the war, I was sent once a month to have my hair cut, and nothing frightened me more than old Köpf setting about shaving the fuzz from my neck with that freshly stropped knife. The fear became so deeply engrained in me that many years later, when I first saw a representation of the scene in which Salome bears in the severed head of John the Baptist on a silver platter, my thoughts immediately turned to Köpf."
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