Aachen

"Does .... a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too." — Phillip K. ****

"If you get hung up on everybody else’s hang-ups, then the whole world’s going to be nothing more than one huge gallows." — Richard Brautigan

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." — Friedrich von Schiller

"Useless! useless!

— heavy rain driving

Into the sea" —Jack Kerouac