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    Herr W.'s Calendar Stories
    Herr W.'s Calendar Stories
    Herr W.'s Calendar Stories
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    Herr W.'s Calendar Stories

    By Benjamin Wegener

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    In a world of increasing moral ambiguity, Herr W. and his friend P take a stand – although not always the most popular or most appropriate one. An hommage to the moralist, intellectual and playwright Berthold Brecht, this collection of short moral tales presents an interesting, albeit inconsistent approach to looking at the world.
    Herr W. and P take on such topics as relationships (including sex), social responsibility, art as well as the modern curse of the reproductibility of reality (i.e. media).
    They comments are usually a bit different, and always thought-inspiring.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBenjamin Wegener
    Release dateJul 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301077625
    Herr W.'s Calendar Stories
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    Benjamin Wegener

    I actually learnt to read in school - and I have liked doing it ever since. When I was about 10 years old, I started using my parents' typewriter to write whatever I wanted to - poems, my diary, notes. I got pretty good at it, and still remember buying my first type-write just after I graduated from High School. And then went on to a Schneider Joyce computer - which, amazingly for the early 80's, was truly multitasking. My favorite to this date. I have been writing on and off ever since my grade school days, and sometimes I even put it all together and then I publish it as a book.

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      Herr W.'s Calendar Stories - Benjamin Wegener

      PART I – HERR W.

      CHAPTER 1 - HERR W. ON BEING HIMSELF

      Asked about the frequent contradiction in his statements, Herr W. maintains that there are no contradictions.

      Even though he may be the same each time, the situations, however, are always completely different.

      After reading Travels with Charlie, Herr W. once again realizes that his is not the common urge of Wanderlust. Even if he were in a different location, he muses, he would still be the same. He doesn’t want to be someplace else; if anything, he wants to be someone else.

      Following Herr W.’s comment that he was always the same and that it was only the situations changing, an acquaintance insisted that even he must have changed.

      That, indeed, might be the case, Herr W. said, but if he had changed, the situation would have been the same. He had never been very good at telling the two apart.

      Not just Herr K. was told that he hadn’t changed a bit. So was Herr W.

      Instead of growing pale, as K. had done, W. just asked whether for the better or for worse.

      Another time, when Herr W. supposedly hadn’t changed a bit, he was happy to hear it and said: So neither you nor I will have to adjust, and I won’t have to deal with the trouble of conforming to a new image. That is so much more convenient for everybody involved. Thank you!

      CHAPTER 2 - HERR W. ON HIS AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHANGE

      Herr W. doesn’t like change. It’s not that the Olden Days were always better. But change comes with the need to adjust. That is hard work. Why not spare him the trouble?

      Herr W. still doesn’t like things around him to change. He says: The emotion of melancholia is triggered by grief, grief for the things that one has lost.

      I want to avoid that state of mind,

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