Guter alter Zeit*

* Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.'

'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.

'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'

'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'

'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint toTime, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'

(A Mad Tea-Party, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll)

Ja, wie der Zeit vergeht. Hildegards Karte ist eine echte Zeitreise mit der astronomischen Uhr von Beauvais und der Briefmarke von Marguerite Duras. Ich wurde kürzlich wieder an sie erinnert, als ich Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam von Amélie Nothomb las. In dem Buch verweist die Autorin auf Duras' Hiroshima mon amour, als sie ihren Besuch in Hiroshima beschreibt. Es ist fast 30 Jahre her, seit wir dieses Buch fürs Examen und mit Lust gelesen haben.