There are several passages hidden behind the clock tower, obscured by giant swatches of thistle and weeds ( Read more... )

Vienna a city which creates beauty in crystaline and perpetual slow-motion. The undead, verschlafene citizens themselves never, or rarely notice the actual motion of this creation, just as a snail cannot regard the spiral growth of its own shell. Only later, from high above, every thirty years or so there comes along someone who from a crows-eye ( Read more... )

I stuck my head out onto the balcony, and cold snowflakes fell on it and into the hot coffee cup ( Read more... )

Not only the droppings of the fir trees as needles and cones, but the raw scent of sap oozing from the trunks themselves affected that dark corner of the pear-tree orchard. If the gardener did not keep back the emerging forest, the fray of wild things could seep over the fences and on all edges encringe upon the neat rows of manicured trees. This ( Read more... )

The two sisters were named Albine, and Amöne ( Read more... )

Korbholz; dass von Korbscherben gemachtes Gestalt oder form. etwas vons Nichtdasein wieder zu spinnen ( Read more... )

The richness of the light in winter, not bright, but milky in its frost and leaden in dropping flurries upon the forest. Frost clung to the little glass panes of the larder, looking out upon dark trees and a infinate field of unmovable snow. The forest had merged forward during the past three years of the war, its growth of trees and wild brush ( Read more... )

Albine versteckte sich im Gebusch des Weingärten, obwohl es urkalt war, und Kleidunglos nach der Verlassenschaft des Mannes, veryweifelt die ehemalige Jungfrau über was sie machen sollte, doch fühle auch in der neue freiheit zufrieden. Der Arsch hat ihr rausgeschmissen, nch er ( Read more... )

Wunschmantel. Whereupon one wishes to be, only put on the old winter coat, and its transfers the body there ( Read more... )

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