wenn man nach einigen monaten in fremden gegenden ein oberhemd anzieht, das bis dahin ungetragen im koffer gelegen hatte. und man, ganz unverhofft, das alte waschmittel riecht. wie man dann durchschossen wird von ploetzlich erinnertem: die form einer fluvioglazialen endmoraenenaufwallung bei jakobshagen im spaeten august, schorffarbenes stoppelfeld himmelan; oder die sommersprossen auf dem handruecken eines menschen, den man einmal sehr geliebt hatte, fuenf oder sechs jahre zuvor.

100 views of Mount Fuji: a selection. via geisha asobi

Raga Yaman vom menschgewordenen Bansuri-Gott Hari Prasad Chaurasia. Ich würde gerne wieder unter dem Mangobaum sitzen, ein Lassi trinken und warten bis die Zeit stehenbleibt.

This new kind of rubber - it will always seem new to me, though it has been in use since the early fifties - completely changed the game of table tennis, and it has been Reisman's bête noir since it was first introduced. Reisman, the winner of the English Open in 1949 - then the most prestigious title next to that of world champion - was poised to win the world championship a few years later, in 1952. It was, he thought, his year. But, in an early round, he faced an unknown Japanese player named Hiroji Satoh, whose racquet was covered with this strange new rubber - three-quarters of an inch of foam - which no one had ever seen. Reisman writes in "The Money Player," "Outfielders in baseball often can judge the flight of a ball from the crack it makes as it comes off the bat. So too can table tennis players judge the velocity of a ball by the noise it makes when it is struck by the opponent's racket. . . . But against Satoh there was no sound." Because of the catapult-like quality of his equipment, Satoh, who wasn't even one of the best players on the Japanese team, was able to use Reisman's own attacking-style game against him. Reisman's shots "sank into the foam rubber of Satoh's racket and were flung back at me with amazing force. . . . I was throwing lethal punches and hitting myself in the face." Reisman had shown up with a bow and arrow, and his opponent came armed with an automatic rifle - and it won him the world title.

Gerade die Vorstellung von Korkwänden in kleinstädtischen Teenager-Zimmern, vollgepinnt mit Berlin- und Londonadressen aus Zeitschriften, für die nächsten Sommerferien.

[1: saintes maries] [2: roussillon] [3: cassis]

[1: massillan] [2: weil am rhein] [3: nähe carpentras] [4: verdon] [5: münstertal] [6: verdon]

Ich, und ich dachte, es wären Inseln im Meer, als ich zwei Stunden lang in es starrte

Nach rund 500 Jahren des Rätselratens haben Forscher das Geheimnis eines weltberühmten Zen-Gartens im japanischen Kyoto gelüftet. Die 15 Felsen der Ryoanji-Anlage stellten einen Baum dar, heisst es in einer Studie der Universität Kyoto, die in der Wissenschaftszeitschrift «Nature» vorgestellt wird.