(The Memory): Focuses on the struggle of remembering and the nature of the past. Jodok lässt grüßen

: In stories like "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" (A Table is a Table), Bichsel explores how language is a social contract. When the protagonist renames objects, he creates a private world but loses the ability to communicate with others, leading to absolute isolation. Constructed Reality

: Characters often struggle with established facts or conventions. For example, a man knows the earth is round but refuses to believe it until he sees it for himself.

This is a story about the weight of words and the spaces between them, inspired by the spirit of Kindergeschichten (Children's Stories). The Man Who Lived in a Download Folder

Bichsel employs several narrative techniques to convey the world of childhood:

He shut his laptop—or rather, he closed his "wooden book"—and went to sit on his "cloud" to think about why a table is a table, and why a story, even in a PDF, never truly ends.