August 19. Hammock delivered. Tried it out by the river right away. Learned: one does not lie on a hammock, not even in a hammock, but is woven into a cocoon, and then let’s see what happens. After all, you are not even supposed to take objects into a hammock, like a pharaoh at the river of the realm of the dead. – When I come out after more than an hour of reading, everything has changed. I hear the first crickets in the riverbank bushes. I very slowly roll up the straps of the hammock as the wind runs through my hair. The runners coming along the path are very strange creatures. I run this route almost every night. I have never seen it like this before.