I write novels, stories, poems, magazine articles, film scripts and plays. I write what I want to read myself. If you happen to have the same taste... Welcome to our world!
I write in Swiss German, English and the Swiss form of written German. In my head I think (when I think) probably half of the time in Swiss German and half of the time in (broken) English.
Architektur als Psychogramm einer Nation
In memoriam Shaban al-Dalou. He was a software engineering student at Gaza's al-Azhar University [Courtesy of the al-Dalou family]
In Memory of a Comrade
What was I doing then? Tying sheaves,
Or maybe weeding,
When you were also crawling across the field,
Where every meter was scarred by shrapnel.
Anne Blocher "Malika"
"Anne Blocher was the daughter of a Mr. Blocher said to be once a superintendent of police in Calcutta. She adopted the poetical appellation of Malika. She is reputed to be a great beauty and well versed in Indian music. She was an adept in playing the Indian Sitar. She was probably born in England but she spent her life in India.
Why did nobody tell me I looked smart? 1979?
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"Fastnacht ist der angenommene Namen der Hugenottenfamilie Fairlin. Als sie in Muntelier eine neue Heimat fanden war gerade Fasnacht. Sie nahmen diesen Namen [1685-1687] an, um der Verfolgung zu entgehen.
Farmers understand what intellectuals cannot grasp:
Ein meister sprichet: der himel hât kein lieht, er ist ze hôch dar zuo [A master says: Heaven has no light, it is to high for it].
Meister Eckhart
He [Gurdjeff] is accused, blamed, for having been present, for having been absent, for helping and for refraining from helping, for talking and for being silent, when a variety of events ranging in people's imagination from rape to taking the veil, from natural death to suicide, from bankruptcy to brilliant success took place in the lives of this one or that one of his followers.
