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"Most of Tacheles’ visitors falsely assume that the building was a victim of Allied bombings."

"...the meanings of words had faded like the light in a run-down flashlight, the objects words might have referred to had crumbled under the weight of the fifty or so years that had passed and given way to the unlikely trappings of a Grand Guignol stage-set in the face of which every sober word and thought confusingly lost its meaning." —László Krasznahorkai, the Melancholy of Resistance (tr G Szirtes, 1998)

"I harbor a passion for those hideous, rigid, saturated laminate rebindings with the title and author stamped in a wretched white or black font on their spine."

"Schrodinger's Jackpot
The lottery ticket sits face down.

Six numbers hold
a house on the coast
and tomorrow's alarm.

Don't flip it.

Unread, the job is quit
and coffee tastes like millions.

Check it, and six p.m. returns
with the bins waiting in the rain."

—@thedevilstuna.bsky.social

In Druidic Costume, with Goats.