You think I am shy 
I am being smart 
to safeguard self 
from the future 
fade of smile.
Create laughter 
and never smile on it again,
or create a smile 
and laugh all your way,
Play!
Never play!

And I thought to myself, well, we’re making

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

Gunter Grass

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