During the day the railway station of Hergiswil is full of tourists, people, coming and going, smiles... You know, anything needed to create the impression of a "sunny place" in Switzerland.
During nights the impression of that "sunny attitude" goes quite cabloy as you perhaps can see.
Sometimes this land reminds me of a very good actor, that presents *only* the own "sunny sides" but hides anything else under the carpet.
Hi Urs and thanks again for the nice comment and the generous rating. I am glad if the image causes all that in your mind.
I never saw or heard Mani Matter directly or on TV or so, but as I've heard about him from many people some time ago, I searched, found, and read some of his lyrics translated into German. I find his mixture of depth and humor very good. It is just a pity that he had to die at that bloody car accident. (Why does it always hit the good ones? :-/) Sometimes I also found some lyric lines in his songs, that could be characterized as "slaughtering all the holy cows of this land", which really astonished me, since most people here seem to be brushing the dirt of this land under the carpet for being "politically correct" in order to maintain their prosperity and live further in "a perfectly clean, and idyllic coutry of total happiness".
The song that I "hear" when I see such images is "Verdamp lang her" by BAP, and especially the lines "... nit resijniert, nur reischlisch desillusioniert, e bessje jet hann isch kapiert.", which perhaos describes exactly the complete abandoning of all the illusions that I had about that "nice land" which under a closer look proved to be the most inhuman banking machine I ever knew.
I am very grateful to you for opening to me another perspective of interpretation about my own image. The railway station where the last train departed and none will arrive too soon - that could be Switzerland itself, after so many years of isolationism, false neutrality in the name of prosperity, fear for anything new, fear in front of unpleasant truths, and lacking the international social developments of at least the last 70 years. I think when this land wakes up, it will be lightyears behind anybody. (Which of course might be a good thing, in the process of understanding that the outer shine does not guarantee quality of life.)
.... "Das isch es Lied vo dene Bahnhöf, wo der Zug gäng scho abgfahren isch, oder noni isch cho" ... (Means: "This is the song of all the stations where the trains always just left, or where they not did arrive, yet"). When I look at your pictures, I always come to this compound,to this awesome song that has been sung by a then well known, popular Swiss singer and cabaretist named Mani Matter, many years ago. I like your serial very much Nick! 7/7. Best wishes, Urs
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