Wulf Krueger > Recent Status Updates

Yesterday, I sat in my wife's study, reading peacefully on my Kobo while she was puttering around with some office stuff.
Before I know it, she takes a few quick steps and slaps my Kobo!



We've been married for 25 years today. :-)

Now they "modernised" (read: messed up badly!) the Reading Challenge page. Goodreads, I love you and I hate you.

For all intents and purposes, my late father's damn house is finally empty, the junk containers - filled to their brims - will be picked up tomorrow. The remaining good stuff will be hauled away by a charity on Tuesday. The agent will get his order tomorrow. The legal and family crap respectively have satisfactorily been resolved.

I might yet get my (reading) life back...

I'm tentatively, possibly, potentially, perhaps, supposedly, plausibly, ostensibly, theoretically, apparently, imaginably, rumored, speculatively, and probabilistically back.

Maybe. We'll see. Just know that I haven't forgotten any single one of you (lest I forgot I forgot!).

I'll probably be on a short hiatus. A sudden (albeit not unexpected) death in the family makes me breathe easier but causes lots of work. Especially since I'm the last child who was neither not-speaking with him nor fled the country! ;-) (He was an abusive prototypical toxic white male, and my father.)

May he rest in peace - but I'll make damn sure rest he will. ;-)

Life happened. I'm back. I hope. :)

Paul Auster, for me one of the greatest contemporary authors, a vigorous and active champion for a liberal, progressive America and world, passed away yesterday, April 30, 2024, at the age of 77. An immense loss for us all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bo...

XVI.

What if I say I shall not wait?
What if I burst the fleshly gate
And pass, escaped, to thee?
What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, — that ‘s enough, —
And wade in liberty?

They cannot take us any more, —
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As laughter was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a travelling show,
Or who died yesterday!