"You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim. "If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by free will. I've visited 31 inhabited planets in the universe...Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." -- K. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Ich mag nicht arbeiten, aber wer mag denn arbeiten?

I was walking towards my German class last night, down a near deserted hall in Folwell, when I realized that something was strange. Could it have been the really loud techno-pop beat of some vintage Kraftwerk? How can you not love a German class that greets you with Autobhan, complete with the lyrics on the overhead, and German grad student/instructor extrodinare Jason Peck singing along from a desk on the side? In the movie of my life, I will highlight that scene. It's a crowd pleaser.

Also on the German tip, I was down in the U of Minnesota journal stacks today, poking around for some early 20th century German anthropology journals for a project I'm working on, and I had the pleasure of discovering my new favorite journal. Swimming Techniques! It looks just like it sounds - and as a bonus, seems to be from the 1940s. If I had a kitschy t-shirt company, I would rule the world with these pictures. That and Czech science fiction.

2 Comments:

Idris Seabright Jr. said...

Ich verstehe, doch, liebchen.

11:39 PM

 
siobhan said...

also, i like that you misspelled "autobahn" as if it were a variation on my name. my work here is done.

10:38 AM

 

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