A dentist is needed here

Parts of a grinding machine at a former cement factory


The crocodile, with cunning smile, sat in the dentist’s chair.

He said, “Right here and everywhere my teeth require repair.”
The dentist’s face was turning white. He quivered, quaked and shook.
He muttered, “I suppose I’m going to have to take a look.”
“I want you”, Crocodile declared, “to do the back ones first.
The molars at the very back are easily the worst.””

(Roald Dahl in The Dentist and the Crocodile)
Visé (B)

We sit inside and we play

An empty cafe terrace in front of an arcade


“Play, play every day, play and play and play away, and then play

the play you played to-day, the play you play every day, play it
and play it. Play it and remember it and ask to play it. Play it, and
play it and play away. Certainly every one wants you to play,
every one wants you to play away, to play every day, to play and
play, to play the play you play every day, to play and remember it
and ask to play it and play it and to play away and to play every
day and to-day and all day. That’s the way to play, to play every
day…. “

(Gertrude Stein in Play)
Solingen (D)

Container Idyll

A few sheds and children's toys in a rural setting


“Auf dem Berge steht die Hütte,
Wo der alte Bergmann wohnt;
Dorten rauscht die grüne Tanne,
Und erglänzt der goldne Mond.

In der Hütte steht ein Lehnstuhl,
Ausgeschnitzelt wunderlich,
Der darauf sitzt, der ist glücklich,
Und der Glückliche bin ich!”

(Heinrich Heine in Bergidylle no.1)
Wuppertal (D)

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