Toh ...

And then, one day, your birthday, while roaming around the shelves of a downtown bookstore, you spot something that calls your attention and say yourself: "What a coincidence!"

Gloria

What can happen more unexpectedly the only night of the year you step into a freezing cold church to sit on a bench for more than a hour to hear the local Weihnacht choir? Opening the book laying in front of you and coming across a page where exactly the same prayer that's going to be sung in short, as evening program opening. Should I believe it was only a rare coincidence?

On the Road

In the hall of the students' residence where I'm staying in this beginning of this experience of mine in Austria, there's a large bookcase where people passing by are invited to drop something from their latest readings. The shelves have just begun to populate, as the building was only built one year ago. Yet, there are already some good things to pick and read, provided you had time and you were able to read from German as well.

I'm not used to stop by, as I'm always on the run or because the hall it's always crowded with so many young exuberant students that stares at you from the moment you get out of the lift, as you were a freak or a martian. Still, there are times that I have to go downstairs and wait for the laundry to finish its job. Then, in the attempt to show indifference, I stop in front of this new born library and begin listing one title after another, till I find something interesting.

So I came across this German edition of Kerouac's "On the Road" and started reading the well known opening ... and taking notes.

(Made and sent from my mobile)

The catcher in the rye