May 1922

Extravaganzas

I had not had a son and I met the son that I would have had if I had had a son.

The dead man, who had expected death, cried out in the other world, with rage, indignation and sorrow.

The Square was at afternoon ; snow fell: straight, monotonous, unflurried ; it made little cones on the tops of posts, it made hawsers out of wires, it amplified every twig on every tree, it made the roofs look thatched, it filled foot-prints and wheel-tracks.

Aesthete

During the period of William II, that colossus with feet of clay, German literature was ever his faithful mirror, even when it twisted his image with ingenious or satirical grimaces.