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Noise Number 13 1925 E E Cummings, ND.

Scrapbook for March

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Posted on  UTC 2026-03-01 02:01

Words: 3; reading time: 1 minute

Heinrich Böll

Where is your brother?

On the 83rd anniversary of the first judicial murders of the White Rose martyrs, excerpts of a speech given by Heinrich Böll on remembering the dead of the Nazi terror.

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-22 18:09

Words: 2,496; reading time: 11 minutes

My yogurt

Simple yogurt making for complicated people

What to do with leftover yak stomachs.

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-21 07:22

Words: 2,072; reading time: 9 minutes

A scene from 'Catarina, or the beauty of killing fascists', Schauspielhaus Bochum. Image: Armin Smailovic

No laughing matter

German jokes and German theatre.

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-20 09:14

Words: 1,085; reading time: 4 minutes

Alfred Escher, founder of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA) in 1856.

Swiss bankers

Lifting up the stone to see what unpleasant things are wriggling underneath.

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-08 19:02

Words: 1,102; reading time: 5 minutes

Franz Schubert, Pencil sketch by Friedrich Lieder, 1827

Schubert's syphilis revisited (yet again)

A critical review of One night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-04 09:12

Words: 5,258; reading time: 23 minutes

Charles Spencelayh, A Touch of Rheumatism, ND.

Scrapbook for February

More website changes | And so to Chur | Website changes

Posted on  UTC 2026-02-01 02:01

Words: 1,358; reading time: 6 minutes

Detail from Ramón Casas' painting 'Au Moulin de la Galette, Madeleine'.

Au Moulin de la Galette, Madeleine

Enigma in the Sapphic mood

Posted on  UTC 2026-01-01 04:21

Words: 2,667; reading time: 12 minutes

Adam de Coster, Card Players by Candlelight, ND.

Scrapbook for January

Website changes: Categories | A tough year ahead for Switzerland | Website changes

Posted on  UTC 2026-01-01 02:01

Words: 489; reading time: 2 minutes

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