"Waiting", june 1998, 20x30 cm

I was born 24th may in 1973 in Mosbach (near Heilbronn and Heidelberg). I just lived a few days in Mosbach, immidiatly after I was born, in the local hospital. I moved to a small town where my parents lived. After some years as a gentle snob, I decided to go to school. After thirteen years, I thought that school couldn't teach me anything anymore. Since I was uncertain wether to study mathematics or fine arts, I started a year of voluntary social work. After that year, I made my decision and started to study. I am 168 cm tall and can't see very well without glasses. On 25.5.1998 (one day after my birthday, easy to remember), I married. I established my own web page on the University Computation Pool (URZ) of Heidelberg, later I moved to Transmedia. To protect my privacy, I decided to use a pseudonym, "Jan Thor", as my personal web avatar. Later, I wrote a text which dealt (besides much other stuff) with the meaning of my first name. Of course, this text revealed my first name, but since you don't know my surname, I think this doesn't destroy my privacy.

My pseudonym "Jan Thor" is connected to my real name by the following operation: first, we translate all letters of S, I, B, Y, L, L, E into numbers. The result is the vector 19, 9, 2, 25, 12, 12, 5. Next, we add the vector 1, 9, 7, 3, 2, 4, 5 (my birthday). The result is 20, 18, 9, 28, 14, 16, 10. Since this contains just one single vowel, we next subtract the vector 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1. This is the I Ging sign Fong, which means abundance, which is what I want to deliver with this web page. The result is 20, 18, 8, 27, 14, 15, 10, or, expressed as letters, T, R, H, A, N, O, J, which contains two vowels and can be spoken. I could have called myself "Trhanoj", but I prefered to re-arrange those letters to obtain a proper first name, "Jan", and with the rest, I built "Thor".

I like the books of Nabokov and Austen, the poems of Ôtomo-no-Iratsume and Alexander Blok, the music of Robert Wyatt and Franz Schubert, the images of Mucha and Kitagawa Utamaro, blablabla. I constantly forget what I like, and every new day, I am a new person with new likes and dislikes.

The "Sibylle" text

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Jan Thor
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