Gestern unterwegs

Dear Reader!

"Yesterday on the Road" presents itself, following "The Weight of the World," "The History of the Pencil," "The Fantasies of Repetition," and "At the Rock Window, in the Morning," as the final phase of my co-writing with daily and nightly events. It also marks the transition or transitions from pure co-writing (predominantly in "The Weight of the World," 1975 to 1977) to subsequent, slightly time-shifted recording: from what is happening "now" to what happened "yesterday," and the day before yesterday, and a few days ago, and a week ago...

For those interested, I should mention that during the years of "Yesterday on the Road," I wrote the play "The Game of Questions," then "An Essay on Fatigue," followed by the film book "The Absence," and then "An Essay on the Jukebox"; lastly, I translated Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale."

P. H., February 22, 2005

(it's snowing, or, translated back from Arabic: "It is snowing on the earth").