Along the Edge of the Forest: An Iron Curtain Journey By Anthony Bailey Random House, 332 pp., $15.95
Few things on this earth jar the human mind more than the Berlin Wall. Long and bleak, with no pretense of fading softly into the background, it has about its very being a perverse sort of sacramental power. Most visitors, upon seeing it for the first time, cannot admit it into their minds without first patting it, running their hands over the flat, roughish cement. In a literal way, to touch is to know.
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