I might tell you something about the rain. I will invent a huge rain, a rain that flows thick and black from above. Or I will talk about the snow that I create. I will invent a tremendous snowfall, I will create a house that slowly disappears in the growing snow. Or I will come up with a completely different story, one day, on Thursday, in December. Stories about the silence in the Alps and the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, about the conditions in Schlitz and the power of song in Nevada, about the laughter of sailors and the temporary abolition of difficulties - in short: tales about weather anomalies, airlessness, tight gloves, and schnitzels eaten in peace. But that was nothing compared to what happened later. Volume IV of the collected works includes "After.