her city Munich (V 237)

[Otto]

"Laugen, Basen, Salze, Gott erhalt'se!"
**Justus von Liebig, according to the Frankfurt School of Humor
(*Brot* *und* *Salz*, *Gott* *erhalt's)*

Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

>In Vera Meroving's city, there was this anti-Fopplian after-party
>in an apartment at the Southeastern side of the Englischer Garten,
>not far from Isar (charming neighborhood; if you have seen "Heimat
>2", you know what I mean). It was past 5 AM already, and I thought
>I better start heading to our hotel by the Oktoberfest area on the
>other side of Munich, as the bus to the airport was leaving at 7:30
>[we had participated in the Bavarian State Opera's quite engrossing
>version of Purcell's "Dido&Aeneas" at the Prinzregententheater on
>the other side of Isar the night before; like the Jamaican singer's
>choral in the Kentian church, where Purcell gets mentioned (GR 129),
>and unlike the original Purcell opera, the production was macaronic
>to say the least, performed in English, German, Dutch, French, and
>Finnish]. As I was walking south toward the Lehel subway station, I
>suddenly found myself crossing the Liebigstrasse; "Liebig, the great
>professor of chemistry [and Kekule's mentor] on whose name-street in
>Munich Pokler lived" (GR 411) "Depression stalked the Liebigstrasse,
>where Mondaugen had had an attic room in a mansarde: a figure with
>an old woman's face, bent against the wind off the Isar and wrapped
>tightly in a frayed black coat; who might, like some angel of death,
>mark in pink spittle the doorsteps of those who'd starve tomorrow."
>(V 243) If Munich was in the grip of depression 83 years later too,
>it was depression of a much more invisible sort.
>
>
>Heikki
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