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"What makes The Joker tick I wonder?" Fredric said. "I mean what are his real motivations?"
"Consider him at any level of conduct," Bruce said slowly, "in the home, on the street, in interpersonal relations, in jail -- always there is an extraordinary contradiction. He is dirty and compulsively neat, aloof and desperately gregarious, enthusiastic and sullen, generous and stingy, a snappy dresser and a scarecrow, a gentleman and a boor, given to extremes of happiness and despair, singularly well able to apply himself and capable of frittering away a lifetime in trivial pursuits, decorous and unseemly, land and cruel, tolerant yet open to the most outrageous varieties of bigotry, a great friend and an implacable enemy, a lover and an abominator of women, sweet-spoken and foul-mouthed, a rake and a puritan, swelling with hubris and haunted by inferiority, outcast and social climber, felon and philanthropist, barbarian and patron of the arts, enamored of novelty and solidly conservative, philosopher and fool, Republican and Democrat, large of soul and unbearably petty, distant and brimming with friendly impulses, an inveterate liar and astonishingly strict with petty cash, adventurous and timid, imaginative and stolid, malignly destructive and a planter of trees..."

"This demonstration displays a Kierkegaardian spirit which I understand," he said, and then requested that we transfer our operations to some other place.

DB, the railway operator, now wants to sell some 1,800 of its stations. Can't affort a restructuring, annually investing 500 mln euro in renovation works, and getting really modest state subsidies. Hugo Boss expands product range. Siemens AG is further being investigated on some dubious payments, tax evasion, illicit relations with a tiny trade union. 'Tiny' means it has 32,000 members. Submitted my Request yesterday. Doing regions in Spain: Galicia, Catalonia. Not really, only trying to.
Such a handsome bid has been placed. To own a railway station, a 1930s one. Should be friends with the town's council though. Politeness.
Maerklin trains, Gebr. Märklin & Cie GmbH.

AN extract from D.B.'s "The Big Broadcast of 1938". Otherwise nothing much going on. Except for milk being replaced by tea. DB could also stand for Deutsche Bahn AG, a railway operator. I should definitely quit.


""Tell me about your early life," she said.
"I was, in a sense, an All-American boy," Bloomsbury replied.
"In what sense?"
"In the sense that I married," he said.
"Was it love?"
"It was love but it was only temporary."
"It didn't go on forever?"
"For less than a decade. As a matter of fact."
"But while it did go on. . ."
"It filled me with a somber and paradoxical joy."
"Coo!" she said. "It doesn't sound very American to me."
"Coo," he said. "What kind of an expression is that?"
"I heard it in a movie," she said. "A Conrad Veidt movie."
"Well," he said, "it's distracting.""

The Balearic Islands are no better. And Asturias, whatever that means.