the new york times scandal, austrian version.*

in its saturday issue ("album" part) the austrian newspaper “der standard” published a short story called "vom sinn des lebens" about a banker and a fisherman, with credits given to the internet (where this "fairy tale" should circulate at the moment), and a person called karin u. (who obviously has sent the story via e-mail).

what a pity that the story's plot is nothing but a cheap rip-off from heinrich böll's "anekdote zur senkung der arbeitsmoral".

or did i miss something here?

* actually, with magazines like “news” or “format” what happened in new york is just custom practice in austria.