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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 pre USB-TOUCHY FEELY Bringing a poet’s perspective to"Every line we succeed in publishing today is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most