On January 1, 2005, after completing her book "Incredible Journeys," Ilse Aichinger opens a journal once again: she changes newspapers, switches cafés, and writes week after week on a furious, poetically narrated essay. With the tabloid press and the books of philosopher E. M. Cioran on the coffee table, Aichinger is on the trail of the definition of "subtext." With utmost precision and sparkling humor, she writes "from the end and towards the end," unfolding a coherent cycle in which the flashes of thought and memory discharge as a long-rolling thunder. Ilse Aichinger's subtexts are an intervention against trivialization and primitive consent. "Thinking positively is the opposite of thinking." It is a wild book, at the end of which - like in the famous "mirror story" - end and beginning, birth.