#wheniwasalittleboy

"But I carry sizzling fried eggs on warmed palates into our best room, which is no longer our best room, but theirs. 'When I am big', I think, 'I will be a teacher. Then I can read all the books I like and eat as many fried eggs as I like!'" 🍳 (When I was a Little Boy is a short but sweet memoir of Kästner's experiences growing up in Germany before WWI. My favourites were the passages about memory which l'll share below. There is an especially long I put in the next slide.) ✨ "But the other chronology, our memory, has nothing to do with metres and months, decades or acres. What we have forgotten is old. The unforgettable was yesterday. The measure here is not the time but the value. And the most precious of all things, whether happy or sad, is our childhood. Do not forget the unforgettable." ✨ "I have forgotten the name of the inn and the street, and even the name of my school friend. It has fallen through the big holes of the great sieve. Where to? Into the emptiness which remains empty, no matter how much falls into it. Memory is unjust." ✨ "There are memories which we bury so well, like a treasure in wartime, that we ourselves can never find them again. And there are other memories which we always carry around with us like lucky coins." ✨ #wheniwasalittleboy #erichkästner #slightlyfoxed #foodinbooks #friedeggs #eggs #memory https://www.instagram.com/p/CEj08CQqO6I/?igshid=19zsx55lyxded

"And my ancestor Hans Augustin was fined by the Town Council of Döbeln for baking loaves which were under weight. Solely thanks to this fine he got into the annual accounts of the town and so into written history... If he had not been caught out that time we would know nothing at all about him. Or at least not until 1577; for in that year again he was fined for selling underweight rolls and loaves, and the find was once more entered into the books. The same thing happened in 1578, 1580 and, for the last time, in the year 1605. So in order to become famous one must bake loaves which are too small and be caught out. Or else loaves which are too big; but no baker has done that yet, at least I have never heard or read of one. Hans Augustin's son Caspar is called Caspar I in my chronicle. He was a baker too and is mentioned in the annals of Döblen three times – in 1613, 1621 and 1629. Can you guess why? Caspar I also baked loaves which were too small." ~ #wheniwasalittleboy #erichkästner #slightlyfoxed #foodinbooks #loafofbread https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUEu38K70O/?igshid=176xnhtpxh4u8