Jonke watched Anna Heller leave her apartment building.  The glass door swung open, and for a split second Anna Heller stood framed in the doorway, with the distant view of the mountains, and the adjacent brick building and the kids playing soccer on a nearby field brightly mirrored in the slowly closing door, so that he retained the simultaneous view of her descending the three steps and the shifting panorama on the glass door.

- Walter Abish, How German Is It?