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Yes, often, I am reminded of her, and in one of my vast array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt — an immense leap of an attempt — to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it. All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. As for the girl, there was a sudden desire to read it that she didn’t even attempt to understand. On some level, perhaps she wanted to make sure her brother was buried right. Whatever the reason, her hunger to read that book was as intense as any ten-year-old human could experience.

Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. After a month, the wall was recoated. A fresh cement page. The day of the announcement, Papa was lucky enough to have some work. On his way home, he picked up a discarded newspaper… and slipped it beneath his shirt. By the time he made it home and removed it, his sweat had drawn the ink onto his skin. The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest.

A tattoo… “What does it say? You see, people may tell you that Nazi Germany was built on anti-Semitism, a somewhat overzealous leader, and a nation of hate-fed bigots, but it would all have come to nothing had the Germans not loved one particular activity: To burn. The Germans loved to burn things. Shops, synagogues, Reichstags, houses, personal items, slain people, and of course, books. Although something inside told her that this was a crime — after all, her three books were the most precious items she owned — she was compelled to see the thing lit.

She couldn’t help it. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see the paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books.

It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. For most of the journey, he made his way through the book, trying never to look up. The words lolled about in his mouth as he read them. Strangely, as he turned the pages and progressed through the chapters, it was only two words he ever tasted.

Mein Kampf. My struggle — The title, over and over again, as the train prattled on, from one German town to the next. Of all the things to save him. With the rest of them, he stood around the bed and watched the man die — a safe merge, from life to death. The light in the window was gray and orange….

During that week, Max had cut out a collection of pages from Mein Kampf and painted over them in white… When they were all dry, the hard part began… he formulated the words in his head till he could recount them without error. Only then, on the paper that had bubbled and humped under the stress of drying paint, did he begin to write the story. Liesel, however, did not buckle. She sprayed her words directly into the woman’s eyes.

Sitting up here. More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable. The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. He laughed. As we’re both aware, she’d stolen books previously, but in late October , it became official. That night, Liesel Meminger truly became the book thief.

In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief’s kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks.

I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words… I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the color of rain. Even the clouds were trying to get away. Sometimes I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blond, and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you. She didn’t dare look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging on to her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out.

A voice played the notes inside her. This, it said, is your accordion. The sound of the turning page carved them in half. Liesel read on. Just give him five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die.

They would all let him, and they would all watch. Then, one human. Hans Hubermann… The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision, but he watched with everyone else as Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl.

That’s why she could climb higher than anyone else. She had desire. She was hungry for them. The brother shivers. The woman weeps. And the girl goes on reading, for that’s why she’s there, and it feels good to be good for something in the aftermath of the snows of Stalingrad. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.

The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. It was explained to me that in the end, Michael Holtzapfel was worn down not by his damaged hand or any other injury, but by the guilt of living.

The sun stirs the earth. Around and around, it stirs us, like stew … On Munich Street, she remembered the events of the previous week there.

She saw the Jews coming down the road, their streams and numbers and pain. She decided there was a word missing from her quote. The world is an ugly stew, she thought. It’s so ugly I can’t stand it. She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know?

 
 

 

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