The Lamentations of Zeno

Acknowledgments

Thanks to all who generously shared their expertise and who helped me, on land as well as at sea:

Dr. Reinhard Böhm for the lively glacier tutorial

Kristina Dörlitz for the excellent research assistance

Alexandra Föderl-Schmid for the second commission

Petra Glardon for the wonderful iceberg photos

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Haeberli for his edifying encouragement

Christoph Hofbauer for his high-powered advice

Mijnheer Hans Huyssen for the music

Angelika Klammer for her inspired and inspiring editing

Freddy Langer for the friendly press service

Dr. Rudi Mair for the conversation about Alpine climate and Antarctic overwintering

Borrego Pedro Rosa Mendes for the days and nights at the Tejo

Compañero José F. A. Oliver for his empathetic reading of the manuscript

Papa Heinz Renk for showing me the Tyrolean glaciers

Dr. Miguel Rubio-Godoy for the avalanche of calamities

Dr. Christine Scholten for the medical review

Dorothée Stöbener for the first commission

Susann Urban for the gift of the title

Juli Zeh for the wielding the red pen

Hurtigruten Shipping for their double hospitality

The poems cited in the text are by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Klabund and Pablo Neruda