Whether it's a meal at an acquaintance's house, a train ride through the Black Forest or a visit to the bakery, whether death and illness, love and longing, a bottle of beer or a Russian-Westphalian dip, for the astute thinker and aphorist Otto Jägersberg, everything is an occasion for expression, literary positioning or clairvoyant philosophizing. A stocktaking in passing and a literary delight.