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buy cheap imipramine Rothwell swiftly leaves Bellotto behind to travel forward in history, via Viktor Klemperer's diary of the Dresden firestorm, to 1987, when he arrives at the home of Haffner, an East German dissident-philosopher with a hint of?Dostoevsky about him. Haffner unwittingly gives this book its title when he offers the author a cigarette, a?Russian brand called Belomorkanal, named after the canal that connects the White Sea and the Baltic Sea and that was built by convicts. He claims that the cigarettes are the strongest in the world, and they certainly have head-spinning associations, involving a pilgrimage that Haffner had made as a young man to a former prison archipelago in the Arctic north in the footsteps of a Leningrad scholar who had been exiled there. Remembering the water's edge, Haffner describes an epiphany: "As I was looking, what was before me had vanished. It melted away. It became whiteness ??? not waves, and beams of light, and sky. It was the whiteness behind the world. I understood that I?was staring into the void at the core of?things; that what we see is not the final verdict on what exists. Since that?day it?has been clear to me there?are?moments in our lives when the world becomes unstable, when our?visual field gives way: things break?before us; they burst into fragments, disappear."