If one common saying from the years of the legendary Willy Brandt is indispensable in the German world of metaphors, it is the diagnosis of his literary companion Günter Grass that progress is a snail. In fact, the times were not only figuratively such that progress took longer to arrive than was conducive to the revolutionary impatience of some people in the 1960s. Progress was also rare on campsites.
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