Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Does Your Car Use Gas In Idol

Victor Pelevin - OMON

What begins realistically - to be a cosmonaut to work towards the future goal of the moon with a childhood description, which is then increasingly surreal. Starting from a simple amputation of the legs in the flight school, got into Omon. Further into the secret cosmonaut troop, whose secret is that all Raumfahrt-/Militärtechnik is only apparent and actually automatically always a man hiding in robotics. As such, Omon goes on a journey of no return on the back of the moon around the Lenin column to explore. At the finish, after all the others, he realizes that he is in an underground tunnel and can only flee out of that.
interest begins with the childhood dream of the vastness of the universe, the Wahrwerdung this dream is associated with a change for the surreal - the dream shifted to a certain extent to the outside. The more he does but, the reality is fragile and bursts at the target, the actually intended for him a hero on the back of the moon. Even the trip there, with each stage of the rocket can say goodbye to a comrade, breaks away a piece of the old away. Just as with the person, Omon is also the spacecraft then Omon Ra of his childhood dream to loss of the space dream goes, so does the dream seems from socialism in the Soviet Union to disintegrate under the arms race and the space race - in the end is it so far just that only the facade remains, in retrospect, so it makes the system as a kind of gutted dar. Very nice also the close link between childhood and unrealized dreams when Omon enters his Lunochod the pedals and see a child on a bike and feel . Always inserts some amusing, as when told by a "Marxist theory of the Moon" or fictitious Lenin's writings is referenced as "moon and mutiny" and "The councils of the satellite. And allusions are many more ...


(14 [empty bottles], 31 [true men] and 33 [gagged], [sacrifice of life] 42, 55 [nuclear weapons], 63 [Ra], 65 [Marxist theory of the moon], 75 [ Christians], 86 [of the steel penis]] 87 [standard meal; dream 94f [the moon], 97 [stars are subject to laws], 110 [so far away to be] is surreal; 145 [Lenin] ubiquitous win 149 [Individuality ])

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

What Should My Bmi And Calorie Intake Be

under a rock for a change ...

runs ... so many things sometimes completely unplanned. Have today, after I already had three hours in hospital was the purpose of briefing tomorrow's surgery, learned that the moves. Originally I have the smooth 17 March suggested, that in more than three weeks. Upon my complaint, it was then at least the next Monday, which is still bearable ... and I honestly do not quite so wrong, because I still have few days left NEN. Even though it bothers me that the whole is pushed back. But can probably change little. Skiers and private patients gibts there are too many.

that I gave me this Bible ne purchased. In fact, even the "Bible-friendly language." Literature, the Bible is so important and ansich this particular project ansich sounded so interesting that I as 'm an atheist but even risen this book. Fits on the shelf next to Homer and Herodotus somewhere ...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Ebay President Lincoln

Herta Müller - Atemschaukel

The fate of the young Leopold Auberg from Sibiu, Transylvania is told in a Russian labor camp. Immediately after the liberation from fascism in Romania it is random, at least it is not clear why exactly he is on the list and not someone else's ethnic German from Romania, was deported to a Russian labor camp in order to make reparation. On the whole, he must stay there for five years, of which he is hungry the first three years before (not only) improves the nutritional status. After the end of time there, he is also not permanent, however, in Sibiu, but moves first to Bucharest and be discovered there again because of his homosexuality and lived the fear that too, to Vienna.

to act incredible poetic the book. The rapture of conditions can present in a labor camp, without any intention that a reality will be lost the work camp. Is made plausible that in some way by the things that are not told - the beginning of the camp so lacking as well, like the end of the camp, after the food has and thus improve living conditions considerably. Exactly what the camp can really take a back seat and can therefore also the reality of suffering Auberg Leopold and his comrades disappear somewhat. Instead connect its actually nice, new terms, the rapture of the currently suffering from one's body, the individuality, (be) make tangible. It also shows the incredible fragility of life, which is coupled with a tenacity of life, which shows just only by the numerous situations in which it is simply not yet broken. Such is life in the camp is a way dream trip ... only framed from the beginning and end, nor are the individual, numerous sections not assigned a time.

-itself, I prefer on the subject, etc. but a more realistic style, looks very strange to read the so-poeticized. Despite this, and therefore it but it already has its own charm.
The wind was from the front, the steppe ran into me and wanted me to break down because I was thin and hungry. (194)



(10f [The parents feel like all the Germans], 34 [Atemschaukel], 41 [I'll always less], 43 [Leopold Auberg from Sibiu], 54 [cripple gymnastics], 109 [Trinity of bread]; 120] [steadfastness, 127 [no evidence] to be allowed home, 133 [The same belly of the Russians], 194 [The whole prairie],! 226 [a plan], 253 [Do not waste], 268 [ Nichtrührer / Hunger angels], 282f [was written], 288f [the park])

Monday, February 15, 2010

Silver Birch Bark Sheets

from one into the next ...

I had been first and foremost been waiting for the semester, with viel zu viel zu tun - dieses Semester konnte ich die allerortens postulierte Arbeitsüberlastung von Bachelor-Studis sehr gut nachfühlen - u.a. zwei Hausarbeiten in vier Wochen während des Semesters zu schreiben (bei 20SWS - und dem dazugehörigen Zeug) hat mich doch weit mehr angestrengt als erwartet und mich nicht gerade zufrieden mit dem Resultat sein lassen.

Jetzt kann ich darauf warten, dass:
- mein Laptop in Reparatur kommt (übermorgen)
- ich ins Krankenhaus komme (in ner Woche)
- ich Bescheid bekomme, ob ich nen Stipendium bekomme ab SoSe oder nicht (Mitte März)

...und bis dahin kann ich noch fleißig für die allerletzte Prüfung in diesem Semester lernen. Ich frag to me right now eh, how to make a survey course in ancient history ne reasonable oral examination. Far too much of substance ... how detailed can you ask for in such a thing?

... but even more concerned the upcoming surgery. Let's see, is whether I can walk properly again and then ... obs the last, the all-important.