WITCHDANCES, WINTERKINGS AND DRAGONSTONES
Or the Astonishing Visions of Hermann Hendrich
A few months ago, my writer friend Harold came by, on his pilgrimage through Germany, digging up the taproots and ostracons of his family and past. Here in Neuchâtel, we visted the Dürrenmatt Museum (thorougly depressing, a concrete mausoleum) and the Laténium (thoroughly uplifting, with a copy of the Gundestrup Cauldron on display, around which we turned and turned for the longest time, inventing stories to go with it) and got talking about this business of museums and how they reveal so much more than just what they have on display. On his return to Campbell River, he sent me a web link, with the admonition "Check this out."
Read the whole entry - Posted on Jun 30, 08 | 8:00 pm | Chronicles
LA BAULE (AND BACK AGAIN)
Or the Inverse Proportionality of Expectation
There must be some kind of a law governing the things in which one ends up involved. If the episode on the outskirts of sanity getting my work OUT of Switzerland and INTO France would have had Franz Kafka nodding his approval (and probably taking notes), the actual sojourn in La Baule was pure pleasure.
Read the whole entry - Posted on Jun 15, 08 | 9:00 pm | Chronicles
RULE OF DESK
Or A Brief (But Memorable) Excursion into the Hinterland of Bureaucracy
Switzerland may not have much seashore, but there are times it does feel like an island (actually, look at any map of the E.U., it is marooned farther and farther inside Europe as the borders extend east).
I have just recently tested those nether shores.
Read the whole entry - Posted on May 29, 08 | 9:00 pm | Chronicles
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