Strange Fiction

A not unsympathetic charming devil, who is only after your very soul, releases a hermit who doesn't  agree with him from his spaceship on top of St Paul's Cathedral. The hermit in a wild act of faith climbs down the roof and in doing so starts a wild chase of two people, a Jacobite Catholic and an atheist, who have pledged to duel each other. - The Ball and the Cross

Yet Bent Again

and also the sense of possession and belonging - or rather not.

There's Always This Question

And it is something that occurred to me at various times, maybe whenever I got this strange sensation of a lot of things not truly belonging: Are you possessing the things or are the things possessing you?

Though on the other hand I'm definitely aware of the fact that there are some things I have acquired by working on them.

There might be some advice here.

Bent

The flipside reads "We don't need new animals. We love animals."

Northrhine Westphalia

Once Schäl wanted to visit Tünnes: When he arrives at his friend's house, he knocks at the door. Nothing happens. He knocks a second time: still nothing. After the third knock Tünnes yells from inside the house: "I'm not home." Whereupon Schäl responds from the outside: "Then it's just fine that I did not come to visit you."

If you are Rhenish you will have a good laugh at the absurdity of the situation, if you are Westphalian you are likely to bewilderedly argue that Schäl actually did go to his friend's house.

Please Refrain

from playing the piano after 8 pm.

Wander-/Wonderland: Great podcast about a hike through Paris - alas only in Flemish! As an aside: Interesting that Bent should be talking about London while walking through Paris and stating that he prefers London - though I do too.

Shakespeare and Company - Paris

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Feeling sort of upside down at least.