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“[…] If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ […]” – Rudyard Kipling, If I have tried to...

…und sie zittert da heute noch

“When the child was a child  It walked with its arms swinging,  wanted the brook to be a river,  the river to be a torrent,  and this puddle to be the sea.” – Peter Handke, Song of Childhood  Today, I am one year older than I was a year ago. As...

Who made your Alphabet?

“If thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like the alphabet is arranged in twenty-six letters all in order, then Mr. Ramsay’s splendid mind had no sort of difficulty in running over those letters one by one, until it had...

the Vorpal Code

“He took his vorpal sword in hand […] One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.” – Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky [1] So… when I sat down to...

the Blue City

“What god do you pursue in cities? Do you see him, briefly, from inside a moving tram? There – is that his name, those spray paint letters? Is that him, broken, crazy, speaking tongues? There, is that him? Can you demonstrate? Can you mouth or call his unsaid...