Der Aufgang zur Sonne

Paul Scheerbart

In Weltglanz, a timid little boy visits the sun in a fever-dream, and awakens, briefly, with the message that, "If one only remembers that the world is very magnificent, one can never be sad." In Seequallen, a dwarf who lives in a glass house under the sea asks the beautiful but poisonous jellyfishes to babysit his adopted son. In Das alte Felsenschloss, the Great Assembly of the animal kingdom decides to take revenge on a human king who is a merciless hunter by taking his own beloved children from him. In Die neue Maschine, a dwarf works anxiously to meet a deadline given him by a fairy to build a machine that will supposedly solve humankind's problems.