It’s a Language Game

We ask whether experience shapes the self or the self shapes experience. But the question borrows its certainty from a grammar that divides what our lives do not.

With or Without or Against the Windmills

I’d love to have dinner with Don Quixote. I wouldn’t expect a particularly reliable dinner companion, but the conversation could be magnificent.

Protected: Kriminalbeamter schildert Ermittlungen nach Mareks Tod und Beobachtungen zur Persönlichkeit des Angeklagten

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Protected: Zeugin über den Angeklagten: „Der war mir unsympathisch – von Anfang an“

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I don’t have any scream time

Wordle. It’s probably the only game I play where losing can be blamed on the English language.

The Book and the Movie

T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom inspired me to travel. The book and the movie. When I stood in Wadi Rum and later wandered through Petra, I was looking as much for an idea as for a place.

Revolt Against Reality

It made thinking optional. It flattened hierarchies, but also flattened standards. It replaced the difficult question of “Is it true?” with the easier one: “Does it feel right?”

Haiku 2026: Toxic / Giftig

This is a collection of seven haiku, written every day of week 29 of 2026. Eine Sammlung von sieben Haiku, geschrieben an jedem Tag der neunundzwanzigsten Woche des Jahres 2026.

Time Travelling with My Typewriter

It forced precision. Every sentence had to be considered before it was committed to paper.

Protected: Zeugin bezeichnet Angeklagten als „tickende Zeitbombe“

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An Excuse Isn’t an Excuse

The best excuse will always be the one that comes with an acceptable reason and at least some degree of regret.

Scriptorium '77

It’s a Language Game

Protected: reading between the lines

Protected: Das große Spiel des Lebens (und was davon bleibt, wenn wir gehen)

Protected: Lenticularis

Protected: All That Is Unlawful In This World

Protected: kommunikativ handeln

With or Without or Against the Windmills

Protected: Kriminalbeamter schildert Ermittlungen nach Mareks Tod und Beobachtungen zur Persönlichkeit des Angeklagten

Protected: Zeugin über den Angeklagten: „Der war mir unsympathisch – von Anfang an“

I don’t have any scream time

The Book and the Movie

Revolt Against Reality

Haiku 2026: Toxic / Giftig

Time Travelling with My Typewriter

Protected: Zeugin bezeichnet Angeklagten als „tickende Zeitbombe“

An Excuse Isn’t an Excuse