At the beginning of the semester, Ulla wanted to pose only for the 'new trends' - a flea that Meiter, her Easter egg painter had put in her ear; his engagement present to her had been a vocabulary whi...
… and one day, after Mahlke had learned to swim, we were lying in the grass, in the Schlagball field. I ought to have gone to the dentist, but they wouldn't let me because I was hard to replace on the...
Воспоминания основываются на прежних воспоминаниях и рождают воспоминания новые. Это и делает память похожей на луковицу, у которой каждая снятая чешуйка обнажает давно забытые вещи вплоть до молочных...
Simultaneity
Yet only minutes before, on the roof, a cold Havana between his lips, he had been silent, both he and his wife bundled in winter coats and hats as if about to set out on a journey. Dark against the sk...
Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.
Doch das sei abermals betont: angestoßen, politisch zu werden, hat mich nicht Willy Brandt, sondern der allerchristlichste Kanzler. Er, der sich aus Nächstenliebe den Kommentator der Rassengesetze, Ha...
We were convinced that she looked on with indifference if she noticed us at all. Today I know that everything watches, that nothing goes unseen, and that even wallpaper has a better memory than ours....
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
Oskar antwortet: Afrika suchte ich unter den Röcken, womöglich Neapel, das man bekantlich gesehen haben nuß. Da flossen die Ströme zusammen, da war die Wasserscheide, da wehten besondere Winde, da kon...
I search on my drum for the land of the Poles and drum: lost, not yet lost, lost once more, lost to whom, lost too soon, lost by now, Poland’s lost, all is lost, Poland is not yet lost.
A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and...
I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters
Y cuando el corredor dijo amén, allí estaba él, con la clara ventana frontal a la espalda, entre la secretaría y la dirección: él, el Gran Mahlke, pero sin ratón, porque llevaba en el cuello el singul...
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
So rode the squadrons out against the grey steel foe, adding another dash of red to the sunset glow.
Si alguna vez vamos a parar al infierno, uno de los tormentos más refinados consistirá en encerrar en una habitación al ser humano desnudo con las fotos enmarcadas de su tiempo... tal vez ese infierno...
Neljännentoista vuosisadan lopulla matkusti tänne seurueineen englantilainen prinssi Henry Derby, kauan ennen kuin hänestä tuli Shakespearen henkilö, ottaakseen kristityn talvihuvina osaa pakanalliste...
Eles não podem agir de outra maneira, os senhores da criação. O privilégio da criação lhes é irrenunciável. Nós, mulheres, temos que ser criaturas, sim, e criaturas perfeitas. Sejamos agradecidas aos...
Me refrescó, como si siguiera existiendo esa respiración boca a boca, el beso de una musa no profesional...