Status Updates From Berlin Alexanderplatz

He steets clear of the heat. In the bar they are just drawing the first beers.

The first beer says: I come from the cellar, from hops and malt. I am cool, how do I taste?

Franz says: Bitter, good, cool.

Yes, I’ll cool you down. I cool the men, then I make them warm, and then I take away their superfluous thoughts.

Superfluous thoughts?

Yes, most thoughts are superfluous. Am I right or am I right?

Right.

"You hardly ever open your crusty eyes, you bundle of misery, you human swamp."

I literally cannot stand Döblin's modernist writing style or quirked-up sense of humor but will carry on solely because of its ranking of the 'one of the most important and innovative works of the Weimar Republic.' Please, dear God, let it get better.

"The fly sits under a microscope and thinks it’s a horse."