The Auslese Alchemist

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Torsten Schmidt

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Volume 07, The Literary Edition •
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People imagined him to be an alchemist. Granted, it wasn’t gold his slender hands were currently molding, rather a gleaming tinted zinc capsule, encompassing perfect angles and gracing the long slender neck of a curvaceous body. While such language might seem passé in 2021,  the characters who regularly participated in such frolics were not. Many were successful, most of them hailing from families older than the states whose passports they’d carry in their bespoke suits. Make no mistake: even here, the wealthier they were, the less attention to proper attire; and don’t let us get started on the unshaven angel…

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Torsten Schmidt has been editing and contributing to the cultural pages of his homeland, Germany, since the early nineties. He is a cofounder of culture consulting brand yadastar and was fortunate enough to be able to interview most folks in pop culture he has ever cared about. Recently he extended these conversations to vintners of all generations via his @charakter_boeden podcast. Now, if you care to open a bottle while listening to an Alex Rosner Custom Soundsystem, head to
bahnhof-thalfang.de and give him a shout, he might be around.

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