Kategorie: Literary Journey
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Wake-up call dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/10 Nocturnal Call In your dream you see yourself getting out of bed and going to the window to get some fresh air. It suddenly felt unbearably stuffy and cramped in your bed, as if you were lying in a nutshell that enclosed you on all sides.…
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Cosmic Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/5 Today, Zacharias Mbizo’s dream worlds take us high into the air: we will float straight into the cosmos and experience a completely different sense of space and time. Bumblebee Flight On the wind of a thunderstorm you ride into the middle of the yellow canola cloud.…
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Winter Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/2 In the second part of our literary journey on Planet Literature, Zacharias Mbizos’s literary miniatures take us to dream worlds that – in keeping with the season – take place in a wintry setting. Winterly Seclusion On the coldest day of the year, you turned into…
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Dreams about Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/1 As previously announced, today we are setting out on a new literary journey on Planet Literature. This time, it takes us to the land of dreams. Our journey begins with dreams that deal with the nature of dreams. Midnight Dance At midnight, your thoughts begin to…
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The Inter-Island Police. Talk about War and Military
Conversations with Paula 10 „Doesn’t your eternal growth lead you to live in a permanent provisional arrangement? And aren’t all the things that your growth produces actually a shackle for you? Wouldn’t you be happier without them?“ Picture: Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901): TheWar (1896); Staatliche KunstsammlungenDresden, Galerie Neue Meister…
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The Palm Wine Convention
Conversantions with Paula 8 „Are you seriously suggesting that the more people there are in a community, the less democracy is possible? If so, you might as well abolish democracy altogether!“ Picture: Ceremonial kava drinking on Tonga (kava: plant with a relaxing, slightly inebriating effect);from: Buschan, Georg: Die Sitten der…
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