She shows me a video of husband Andre working at the same anvil prewar his artwork, some Game of Thrones themed selling in the U.S. and Europe for hundreds of dollars.
" We are happy that the children had the chance to go to the celebration today just as in the prewar times, " she said, " This is really exciting and joyful."
America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong. Hence the neurosis, despair; the Kafka feeling that the whole marvelous fabric of American life is coming apart at the seams.