Some people are not only selling goods, they are also selling information. But information is seldom as cheap as Chinese souvenirs.
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Haben Sie einen bestimmten Wunsch?
Manche Verkäufer haben nicht nur Waren im Angebot: Sie verkaufen gelegentlich auch Informationen. Allerdings sind die nicht so billig zu haben wie kitschige Souvenirs.
Some take me for the real E-Wa. It’s up to them. Some think I’m a sham, or even a liar. Wow! But I present you with another possibility: Maybe I’m a body double of E-Wa? Know what? Nothing is true. It’s all just a game.
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Wer bin ich wirklich?
Einige halten mich für die echte […]
The lift lady at the Pearl Tower doesn’t look soooo friendly. But hey, sometimes her job is just as boring as mine. Should I expect her to fall into my arms? Strange idea! I better go back to follow my instructions, and do my job. A job by the way that confronts me with a […]
This hybrid Shanghai of mine
That has so much going on
Could leave you paranoid.
Except…
Except you start to think.
Until you come, maybe,
To the heart of the matter.
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Das Herz der Dinge.
Mein hybrides Shanghai
In dem sich Unerklärliches ereignet,
Kann eine Paranoia bei dir auslösen.
Es sei denn…
Es sei denn, du beginnst zu denken,
Bis sich dir - vielleicht
Das Herz der Dinge offenbart.
“As a result of these skew-whiff thought processes a story, which I had read somewhere, came to mind. A group of IBM bods, armed to the teeth with their powerful laptops, struggle over the Himalayas. Their aim; to reach an isolated Buddhist monastery, where the monks were responsible for counting the names of hundred of […]
“At this instant another voice joined in the conversation. It was a soft, pleasant, and to me, very trustworthy voice, but a voice with a steely undertone which I had never before heard from her. She only spoke one single sentence, which was more a statement of the facts. Facts, which inevitably led to a […]
“I did not wish to hear any more from E-Wa about this nerve-wracking situation. I wanted to hear more about Babs. Actually, no, I did not want to hear anything more at all. I just wanted to get away. Away from this filthy basement, crammed full with unseen, mysterious, electronic apparatus, this miserable hole, under […]
“I wondered what would happen if, our ‘oh so cool’ Lin, who conducted himself perfectly, as if he had everything under control, if, after the next turning, he was suddenly catapulted into 1972 and we were confronted with a whole street full of an advancing horde of the Red Brigade? It would probably be pretty […]