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in the West no one would understand it inspo/characterisation

He’s sitting in the bar of the Berolina, getting drunk. Ingrid didn’t want to talk to him tonight, which was maybe for the best, but what was he going to do by himself in his one-room box. He didn’t want to take a single step without Katharina. The kid has optimism for two, she needs to, and she sw…

—p.117 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
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how the end likes to set its roots for/pq-maybe project/nye-play project/stunt-story topic/infidelity

Two weeks ago, when Ingrid was taking Hans’s jacket to the dry cleaner’s, she found a passport photo of Katharina in the inside pocket and wouldn’t talk to him for three days. He didn’t tell Katharina. In October Katharina cried for the first time about the fact that he was married, and in November…

—p.108 by Jenny Erpenbeck
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the present trickles down moment by moment for/pq-maybe topic/heartbreak topic/infidelity topic/the-passage-of-time

Barbara is the name of the waitress at the Arkade. She’s tall, and taller when she puts her hair up. Two coffees and two glasses of Rotkäppchen, please, Barbara. A celebration. It’s their third 11th day, their trimensual anniversary, and if Katharina had a wish, then she would wish that fate never …

—p.100 by Jenny Erpenbeck
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the present trickles down moment by moment for/pq-maybe topic/heartbreak topic/infidelity topic/the-passage-of-time

Barbara is the name of the waitress at the Arkade. She’s tall, and taller when she puts her hair up. Two coffees and two glasses of Rotkäppchen, please, Barbara. A celebration. It’s their third 11th day, their trimensual anniversary, and if Katharina had a wish, then she would wish that fate never …

—p.100 by Jenny Erpenbeck
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the silence suddenly thickening in the room topic/heartbreak

You said this could go on as long as I want, and now I don’t want. That’s what Katharina will say when he finally gets through to her when she’s back in Berlin, he’s almost certain of it now. Can you help me?, the damned cork broke off. No, he can’t help Ingrid with her cork just now, he needs all …

—p.85 by Jenny Erpenbeck