Literature

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Screenshot by phb This post is about mateship and help and neighbourhood watch in Australia and more. Born in Holstein between the Horizons in 1949, I have left my Home and Home Country many times working abroad. With the help of some friends (Joe Cocker) plus a bit of LUCK, I was privileged to work in South West Africa (Namibia since 1989) in one of the oldest German High Schools abroad, initiated by the then German Kaiser. The DHPS and its allies, mostly farmers and small business owners, taught me so much, I could write three or more books. However, I am a rather lazy person, so I will only keep on running like a DIESEL or Volkswagen, and publish my first short stories. As a High School teacher of German and English, we analyzed many of the best ones ever published. One of the my favourites are: Hemingway, Stories of Initiation - the Nick Adams stories. Doris Lessing - No Witchcraft For Sale. Heinrich Boell T C Boyle. Just to name a few. Ich will sagen: Die Latte liegt eher hoch. The Australian Mateship is a rather unknown terrain for German born people. When I became an Aussie citizen, I had to undergo a citizen test before the authorities went ahead. An Online Test, of course. I studied the AUSSIE Mateship policy, and - honestly - I was blown away.…

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Ocean Vuong

Wayne Sorensen Photography Miami QLD | World Champs Surfing Burleigh Heads 2025 | Credit Wayne Sorensen | Screenshot phb Ocean Vuong | Vietnam and the USA Ocean Vuong | #Novalis A Voice of Elegance and Urgency The name is derived from Grace Amazing Grace #Lyrics #Music #Voices Ocean Vuong's latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, was released in May 2025 and has been selected as Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick A. The novel follows Hai, a college dropout and recovering addict, who contemplates suicide but ultimately forms an unexpected bond with Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia B. Set in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, the story explores themes of survival, human connection, and resilience C. Vuong’s poetic prose shines through as he examines the lives of those on the fringes of society with tenderness and depth D. Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet and novelist, has carved a distinct space in contemporary literature with his lyrical prose and evocative poetry. Born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1988, Vuong immigrated to the United States as a child, and his works often explore themes of war, trauma, queerness, and the immigrant experience A. His debut poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and established him as a formidable literary voice B. Vuong’s first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019),…

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W G Sebald and Vertigo

I found a website I wish to share with all my avid readers around the globe. The German-born writer Sebald lived in Great Britain and died in a car accident. The website Vertigo: Just check Sebald out for yourself via the link provided here. Linked here ... Greek Tribute to Sebald | Vertigo (wordpress.com) Quoted from the website Vertigo: W.G. Sebald is a writer whose roving takes us from the beginning of each of his texts to an out there, to an exteriority, where we paradoxically come closer to ourselves as it overwhelms us with knowledge of a complete self-awareness. And this paradox... Sebald is a stranger, and with us as his personal friends in a foreign land, he departs to observe critically from a supervisory distance of epic proportion and always with the pursuit of a certain tension in mind, as he once said, often ominous and threatening. Perhaps here the blurriness of his scattered images and photographs, the levitation embedded in them... Read the full text via the link. Author: Vasilis Papageorgiou Greek Tribute to Sebald | Vertigo (wordpress.com) —- Mr. Vertigo written by Paul Auster, published in 1994. This novel tells the story of Walter Claireborne Rawley, also known as Walt, a neglected orphan who is taken under the wing of Master Yehudi. Yehudi promises to teach Walt how to fly, both literally and metaphorically. Plot Overview Walt's…

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