Graphite on hand-made paper

31.5 x 23.2 inches

reproduction by Marco Wittkowski

"Yesterday evening in the news again the Hartz IV demonstrations. And again the people with the posters and buttons. Our protest is to become formula! This can be integrated so easily into the arrogant and abbreviated sign systems of power that the brave people who have been saved away could also save that away. But how could this sign system be broken up?

I would have to occupy myself with the music they call "classical music". Verdi, for example, although at the moment I would probably prefer the Prisoners' Chorus from Nabucco to the Triumphal March from Aida.

Now the screen saver turns on. "Keep writing!" flickers. Yesyes, I come right back, just the weather."

From: Tales from 1001 Doctorates, "The Text Averted Side of Thinking" by Thomas Ernst, 2006, Klinkhardt Verlag