Monatsarchive: April 2018

These four young people stand absolutely motionless around the eternal flame. I stood and watched them for several minutes. They are pretty incredible. The ruins of the White Palace. I am standing at the fulcrum of the Twentieth Century.

Guardian: Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, Wiltshire, said it had not proved it was created in Russia. Aitkenhead confirmed the substance required “extremely sophisticated methods to create something probably only … Weiterlesen →

Which pre-war life? When did this pre-war life start? Was it the life of the Russian Empire? The Belarusian People’s Republic? Did the pre-war life include the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921? Do those wide steady steps at the bottom include … Weiterlesen →

vulica Kamunistyčnaja 4. Lee Harvey Oswald called this apartment building home from 1960 to 1962. Morning view across the street from Oswald’s apartment.

Some of these things I read and re-read. Guardian: A Texas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to vote in the 2016 presidential election when she was ineligible because she was on probation.

Park across the street from where my grandfather lived in the 1920s. His building is gone but the park and the fountain are still here. My grandparents must have come here, must have walked these paths.

This evening I walked the ground where the majority of Vienna’s Jews were murdered.

Two kinds of meat, two kinds of cheese. At the top a large slab of gingerbread with a fruit filling. Fruits and vegetables were represented by a single cherry tomato. Hotel East Time