Conversations with Goethe

Forty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably.

And then:

  1. The Educational Experience What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we...
  2. Jesus’ Son Everything down there but the curtain was red. it was like a movie of something that was actually happening. black...
  3. Brown Of course, I did spare a thought for a little boy I’d seen earlier that day. He was kneeling on...
  4. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or...
  5. The Bridge i reach out to the old lamp and turn the darkness on again....
  6. Yellow Dog And the words enveloped him like an unrecognisable fart, saying: yes, oh yes, this is you, this is you....

18. August 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Donald Barthelme originally written in 1987

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