sewing and Sebald

I watched "Patience (after Sebald)" tonight. Katie Mitchel talks about the rip that can happen when you just wander around and "things sort of rip or tear and you see things as they actually are, and then most of the time we just turn away, we sort of sew it up and just move on and don't notice it but Sebald ... he has no mechanism by which he can sew it up and walk away from it - it rips, he sees another reality and he just tips into it ....