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It was an awesome feeling to attend on the Nobel lectures of Chemistry! Congratulations to all three Nobel laureates, fantastic work and keep working on molecular machines! 😎🔬⚗️#chemistry #science #scifi #nobel #nobelprize #nobelprizewinner #nobellaureate #nobellecture #achievement #explore #impossibleisnothing #neverstopexploring #lecture #learning #stockholm #nobelweek #stockholmuniversity #stockholmuniversitet #lifelonglearning #molecularmachines #sciencelife #acs #youinthelab #chemistrylove #chemistryisfun (at Stockholms universitet)

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herta muller

do you have a handkerchief was the question my mother asked me every morning, standing by the gate to our house, before I went out onto the street. I didn’t have a handkerchief. And because I didn’t, I would go back inside and get one. I never had a handkerchief because I would always wait for her question. The handkerchief was proof that my mother was looking after me in the morning. For the rest of the day I was on my own. 

The question do you have a handkerchief was an indirect display of affection. Anything more direct would have been embarrassing and not something the farmers practiced. Love disguised itself as a question. That was the only way it could be spoken: matter-of-factly, in the tone of a command, or the deft maneuvers used for work. The brusqueness of the voice even emphasized the tenderness. Every morning I went to the gate once without a handkerchief and a second time with a handkerchief. Only then would I go out onto the street, as if having the handkerchief meant having my mother there, too.