I chose this book because it's one of the last books ever that I still read, in the meantime I don't even read this book anymore, I don't know why I don't read anymore and I don't ask myself that, I just think my days are so long that I'm too tired then, I must have read The Tempest 300 times over the years and held it in my hands, read a chapter or two only to fall asleep, I don't know it by heart and don't intend to, the last book I read was Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami in the first pandemic summer of 2020, he's my favourite writer next to Toni Hillerman and Jo Nesbö, I've have read a lot all my life and started writing myself in 2012, maybe it is related.

The page I photographed is the austere description and the beginning of the end of the crew of the Andrea Gail, the chapter The barrel of the gun describes the life of the crew as a group of people in total self-denial, who are clear about or don't care how dangerous what they do is, every time they leave they don't know if they'll be coming back, this was something I could really relate to and it's probably connected to my own life as a musician.

Caspar Brötzmann, April 2022