1. The German for living the good life is "to live like a maggot in bacon." (Hanging Noodles)
2. The German word "kummerspeck" means "excess weight gained by emotional over-eating" and translates literally as "grief bacon." (Nick Confessore, twitter)
3. From a W.G. Sebald poem that appeared in the New Yorker sometime this year:
A young woman
came up to me
& said that al-
though on vacation
she had spent
all day at
the office
which unlike
her apartment was
air-conditioned &
as cold as the
morgue. There,
she said, I am
happy like an
opened up oyster
on a bed of ice.
