Waiting hierarchies: symptomatic of modern life -- Der Verschollene : "Why are you keeping me waiting?" -- Der Zauberberg : "empty betweentimes" -- Transit : "an insane waiting for nothing" -- Mutmassungen über Jakob : "the world hasn't been waiting just for me" -- Malina : "must one wait a whole lifetime?" -- "Ich" : "now I could only wait-- for what?" -- Nachwelt : "the waiting existed only for her".