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Occasional musings, Geistesblitze, photos, drawings etc. by a "resident alien", who has landed on American soil from a far-away planet called "Germany".

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Christian Morgenstern, Humorist

This is a post I should have written in March 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of Christian Morgenstern's death. But I missed the...

Monday, November 4, 2013

Word of the Month: Die Sternstunde

Word of the Month: Index Stern means “star” and Stunde “hour.” A Sternstunde (plural Sternstunden ) is a “dramatically compressed, fate...

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Word of the Month: Der Platzhirsch

Word of the Month: Index Platz means "place" in a very broad sense—it can be a location, a position (like in a hierarchy), a sp...

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Word of the Month: Amtsschimmel

Word of the Month: Index A Schimmel is a white horse, and Amt denotes, in this context, a government office. In combination, they refe...

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Ulrich: "One thing could be said about Ulrich with certainty: He loved mathematics because of the people who could not stand it." (Robert Musil, The Man Without Properties, m.t.)

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