In most of photographs Sebald includes in his memoir, there are net patterns such as on windows and fences. The first example of net is right after his experience of trauma and moved to the hospital. The narrator is lying down on a hospital bed still immobilized and sees the window near his bed. The narrator was afraid that that his experience of walking the town of Suffolk become a forgotten past and states that “Several times during the day [he] felt a desire to assure [himself] of a reality [he] feared had vanished forever by looking out of that hospital window, which, for some strange reason, was draped with black netting” (4). The narrator climbs up to the window sill and sees that what he used to know is no longer same. The narrator describes
