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SILENT. FILM.
Long ago, very long ago, film at the cinema was a thing for readers. It was fun for the whole family. Especially for those who had mastered the art of…
 • Christian Wehrli
This Here Is Private!
"Private Property" stands there like a raised index finger — pointing at nothing, only threatening. It stands like the warning finger at the start of a…
 • Christian Wehrli
Wollust.
Seven letters carrying countless layered promises. Hast du wohl Lust — something like "do you feel quite like it" — was the word's meaning back in…
 • Christian Wehrli
Run Terry Run
Terry sets off running. On April 12, 1980, Terry starts his run in St. John's — and his foundation for cancer research. With one healthy leg and one…
 • Christian Wehrli
All You Need Is Love. And a Song.
Every second pop song took love as its cue, or even as its whole content. In itself that's a relaxed and heartwarming idea.
 • Christian Wehrli
The Penetrant-ish Ones.
Anyone who moves through the world as a penetrant type is eating away at everyone else's stores. That, at least, was the original meaning of the word in…
 • Christian Wehrli
Silence? Cashed In For Silver!
"Speech is silver. Silence is golden." Who first trumpeted this bit of folk wisdom out into the world? The author is unknown, but apparently the Quran…
 • Christian Wehrli
They are crying out again!
If you shout loudly on the street today, you get the police on your back. Five hundred years ago, you got paid for it instead. Well, the town crier…
 • Christian Wehrli
Be Sessed
Is or Has? His or Mine? Reads strange, but it makes the difference between someone being possessed and someone having possessed.
 • Christian Wehrli
«Excuse me, Herr Professor!»
An accent brought him up. The same accent brought him behind bars. Hermann Boeschenstein from Stein am Rhein taught German Studies at the University of…
 • Christian Wehrli
Children and the Powerful.
Children ask a lot of questions. For some, too many. When children ask themselves how and why the grown-ups are mishandling their future, those…
 • Christian Wehrli
9/11
9/11. Two numbers, one date, and I still know to this day, razor-sharp, where I was standing. Nine-Eleven stands for September 11, 2001, in New York…
 • Christian Wehrli
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