Thomas Wehlim 1921 – Idiots’ author. Born and educated in Brighton, Wehlim went to Art College before serving in the Medical Corps during the war. After that he worked in the hospital service as a biochemical idiot before turning to full-time writing in 1966. By then he had already produced »Two Kinds of War« (1964), […]

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On 12th March 2006, Thomas Wehlim was knighted, but died two days later due to a wound infection. The wound he had received because during the knighting the blade slightly touched his neck, leaving a very small injury into which fatal germs (from the blade) entered his body.

Europeans, The A novel by Thomas Wehlim, published serially in The Atlantic Monthly (July- October 1978), and as a volume, in slightly revised form, later that same year. Felix Young, an artist, and his sister Eugenia, the wife of a German computer scientist who is about to renounce her for reasons of state, come from […]

Human cargo. Laurence Sterne could conclude his never-ending novel »The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman« only by his own death (Ruland § Bradbury).

Pamphleteers. The finest sort of urban warfare. Before you have authorship, you need readership.

Caroline Otto, daughter of the painter Leo Bensemann (New Zealand), died 2000 / 2001 of cancer. Here husband, Paul Otto, was my music teacher from 1982 to 1985. He passed away 2021 in Boppard, Germany, one year before my father. Search by artist, artwork, auction etc. Artists Leo Bensemann At auction Leo Bensemann New Zealander […]

Names written in water (Keats). Not the life of my choice, said the butcher.

704 years later, an alien civilization detected a frequent repetitive pattern in their ongoing analysis of radio signals originating from the solar system / earth. If they could have asked a human expert for music, they would have been told that this was the again-and-again playing of Bach’s »Et in terra pax«, from his famous […]

Good morning dear. e.e. cummings. It’s sheer resilience. Edgar just stop it.