There were no parties any longer, it was eight years since he had last attended a works Christmas party. Last night’s party was a success, just as every Christmas Eve party is always a success, a friend dances with her husband by the tree to the Ahmed Jamel trio, by…

The receptionist desk is muted greys and with black edgings, behind it two computers screens, keyboards and phones. The phone rings as you approach and stand before the desk and say to the receptionist on the right. “Hello I am… “ “We’re expecting you take a seat in the waiting…

i am resting on the desk on the dining table in the kitchen, i am relaxing after a night of reviewing the surveillance data for the building, and hear noises , water is running upstairs in the bathroom, she is waiting for the hot water, he is brushing his teeth…

‘i will explain the motion by which the generative bodies of matter give birth to various things, and , after they are born, dissolve them once more…..’ Lucretius …The office is on the twenty first floor, there are forty eight landings and flights of stairs, you have no idea how…

Erro was in her thirties she travelled to Madagascar, running on a line of flight from people who wanted to dissect her body. she thought to hide in Zanzibar she ended up travelling by ship to Madagascar she left her man behind in London never saw him again nobody would ever see her there she thought she looked…

here are two Pauls, one european and one american, one died the other will. Let’s begin with the american one… We were sitting a bookshop cafe, holding a few hours over lunch to speak, to renew our acquaintance. We talked about everything, meetings, friends, politics, science. [He said for me…

Eduard lived in Hamburg at the address at which he could not be reached. He walked to the Funkhaus in Rothenbaumchaussee and visited his colleague Bertolt Wildermuth, whom he had known for years, a brother of Ottilie Wildermuths, with whom he had traveled on the train, and Helmut Maria Wildermuths…

“Driven at last to an uncrossable boundary, you have, it is said, crossed a crossable one.” (Brecht) 10PM — I read the translation that begins: “Odipuskomplex made in Germany 1965 Papa hat ungefähr tausend Jahre regiert der Ödipuskomplex des deutschen Volkes heißt Enesdeape danach haben wir es mit Opa versucht…

savored with the potato pancakes, herring and soft cheese, the damson vodka from the bar in crystal shot glasses reveals its true meaning. A cool breeze makes the pink tablecloth shiver on the on the terrace, it holds the wave of emptiness that reminds us of the abyss that approaches day by day, the noisy flapping of the awning makes the the air itself boom, right here, besides us…