reading by the riverside (was: nn on rmr)

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 * (a woman's voice, dreamy): " ... we have a cattle ranch in wyoming and while 
 my family went to see our life stock exhibited, i rode further into the  
 mountains and established a camp in a veritable paradise. there i lay beside  
 the bank of a mountain stream in which i was supposed to be fly-fishing, and in 
 the shade of those enormous fir trees which would be out of proportion in any 
 country but our own i read your account of joseph's experience in egypt.  i 
 shall spare you my detailed impressions until i do my criticism for the post,  
 but i must tell you at once that this last volume is if anything greater than  
 either of the other two. many a time i tossed the book aside because my   
 imagination was compelled to follow the current of your thoughts in much the   
 same way as the water in the mountain stream before me pursued its way between 
 meandering banks. to have read this extraordinary book in the silence and   
 majesty of such a natural setting is an experience that i shall never forget   
 ..."

 cf. Thomas Mann/Agnes E. Meyer: briefwechsel 1937-1955. ed. by hans rudolf  
 vaget. ffm 1992: fischer, p. 91f.


               there's no place like home ... judy +