“I had a wonderful time—but this was not it,” is what I contemplated, then discarded, saying to the lady who had hosted the "hat-party". The lady in question was Kristina Szekely, the equivalent of Majorca's Matthias Kühn. Both started from scratch about thirty years ...
The longer we postpone things we must do, the harder it becomes to accomplish them, don"t you think? Take letters: guilt at not having written them compounds the delay"thus the guilt"until you convince yourself that, being no longer expected, it's no longer important. Ten days ago, ...
—-Forgive me for interrupting, the little man said, but I thought I had read his oeuvre complete and suddenly I see a title unknown to me. Ah, I said with contrived good grace (only a few pages to go), that may be because this novella's only been published in 1987. As Stefan Zweig moved to ...
