By Charles Bukowski
A quick tale tailored from Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiographical works. the following, one of many eponymous "Winos" is employed for the backbreaking task of relocating railroad ties.
Matthias Schultheiss, the artist, labored on a sequence of comedian diversifications of brief tales by means of Charles Bukowski, accrued in an album by way of Heyne, Germany. moreover, Schultheiss did art for numerous verbal exchange and press assignments, and he illustrated the part 'Die Grüne Hölle' in Stern journal.
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The idea , for instance, of in creasing sala ries to decr ease th e cost of autom obil es, ra n com pletely ag ainst th e popular views of th e d a y. Today we know that H enry Ford's ide as were a pr erequisite for wh at we call th e Ame rica n way of life. We you ng Ge rmans, th ough , had a difficult tim e in j ustifying suc h views. In tim es of rising un employm ent it seemed almos t gro tesq ue to speak of streamlining a nd in creased producti on . It is known that th e high un emplo ym ent of the lat e 1920s provid ed fertile soil for mor e radical solu tions.
At th at tim e the colleges a nd uni versities wer e not nearl y as overcrowded . " I was often advised to choose a smaller school wh ere there would be more contact with th e professors. Despite that, Berlin had a good reputation, both academi call y and as a place wh er e studen ts work ed hard . Nevertheless, work wasn 't our onl y pastime. Behind closed doors there was a rich a nd va ried student life. Of course, we also had our " loa fers" in Berlin . And I , too , as mentioned, tri ed my parents' patien ce greatly.
The problem here is that, in general, the coils of the next relay group must be switched via the contacts of the previous group, which explains why the relays of the first group cannot be allowed to fall immediately. In principle, this could be solved using fall delay relays, and it has probably been tried in many ways. But the process has definite disadvantages. In the majority of computing machine switches that operate cyclically, the fall time must be set very precisely and this requires extremely accurate adjustments.