German literature – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grindish twitterings for November

Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.

A steam locomotive at Zaječí, Southern Moravia. In the background, the Hodonín express.

“Virginity is an overrated virtue”

Granddad’s Armistice in letters and recollections. Glimpses ante hoc of Cameronians & Royal Scots (52nd Division) in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the Somme; of ambulance trains in Northern France; of 6th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment (11th Division) during the terminal Hundred Days Offensive to Mons, Belgium; and post hoc of base hospitals, influenza, and an exchange with one Wolfram Sterry regarding his brother Karl. Introducing Kandy the Maltese terrier.

No early photos so far from the steel boxes, so here's grandpa with grandma at Winchester Cathedral in 1972.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution

Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.

Arthur Ditchfield, The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers (1873), at the <a href='http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125738/oil-painting-the-casbah-and-the-ravine/'>V&A</a>

Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?

The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe niet de beste Duitser aller tijden

Zegt al-Jazeera. Oliver Bierhoffs favoriet is Goethe: “Er hat Meisterwerke vollbracht und ist ein großer Name in der Weltliteratur.” Olly leest tegenwoordig Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged, een verhaal “set in a near-future USA whose economy is collapsing due to the inexplicable disappearance of the country’s leading innovators and industrialists. The question of why these people…