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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

Shopping, Shuffleboard, or Zombie Apocalypse?

A woodcut print by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting a monk trying to flee death, who (represented by a skeleton) has a firm hold on his cowl. A dog flees the scene at the monk's feet. An hourglass is set upon the floor, its sand run out.

I go to the shops to buy spelt flakes. I find myself amidst the shambling masses.

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

I Think I’m Coming Down with a Cold. My Editor Will Be Pleased.

Cartoon of a blond-haired boy with blue top, green trousers, and brown shoes blowing his nose into a white handkerchief.

Sneezing season’s upon us, the mid-autumn malediction of coughs and sniffs which sets most Germans slipper-shuffling and clutching hankies to their faces.

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

The Knight-errant with the Heart of a Carpenter

A black and white photo of the front of a house. A door with a 6-segment window is on the left, and a window with cacti behind the panes is on the right. In front of the house are paving tiles borderied by small, neat cobbles.

Despite the cool night air, The Man Who Shouts at Doors is back. I can hear him through the double glazing. He’s having an argument. It sounds one-sided.

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

Sometimes Nothing Happens (and Other Lies You Tell Yourself)

Black and white photo of a man and a woman working by an IBM 700 mainframe computer. She's sitting at an operating terminal, he's standing looking at the mainframe itself.

Sometimes it turns out doing Sweet FA is actually A, and the F turns up later as Feelings. Funny ...

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

The Dancer’s Child, the Shawn, and the Court of Margaret of Austria

A photo of two wooden baroque recorders with intricately carved head- and foot joints and monstrous mouthpieces.

The Mathematician and I sit and listen to the city's small moments.

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

The Child, The Kite, And The Colossus

A woodcut illustration by GW Dijsselhof of a man in 19th century garb standing in a field holding the kite line of a a flying kite. The kite has a black tasselled tail. In the distance are a few small buildings and hills.

I take the long, long way round to the shops and pass sights small, tall, and awful.

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables

Sometimes, if You Want Something to Be Read, You Have to Nail it to a Door

A view of the All Saints castle church tower in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, rising high over the courtyard and the smaller buildings opposite.

An unusually hot weekend. A door covered in theses. A murder shop. All the things Lutherstadt-Wittenberg had to offer ...

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Christopher Mollison In City Fables, Tech

Back to the Future

Black and white photo of an old phone with a handset resting on its horizontal cradle.

Fibre optic internet is arriving in Leipzig. The city’s about to join the Modern World.

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Christopher Mollison In Letters, Travel

Returning to the North

A black and white photo of a sandy path leading off to the beach. To the left of the path is a grassy dune, to the right, some trees. The horizon is not level, giving the impression the sand, dune, sky, and woods are swirling.

Troubled by dreams, C returns to the Baltic to try and break what he considers to be a curse.

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Christopher Mollison In Letters, Travel

Letters from the North (II)

A black and white image of a dead tree in a moor shaped like a catchpole

Still at the Baltic, C and companion travel according to T's advice and find themselves in an enchanted moor.

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