Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

Cher coquin cadet! 45
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10th July, 1902
Have soundly passed the main examination today and they have, in great
goodwill, even given me unmerited distinction . . .
Dear Gerber!
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Un vieux coquin. 46
Ischl 47 , 25th July, 1902
It is not going well with me, within. Hope you are not doing all too badly at least.
Please write to me, in Munich, poste restante (will not leave from there until 4th
August), as it is in P. 48
Dear Friend!
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Munich (Löwenbräu), 29th July, 1902.
5 pm.
I am going a bit better, at least I’m doing as though it were so. The mild but
irresistible influence of Munich beer becomes noticeable even already. Munich has
still brought forth no great man: all have stepped forth, none have stood firm. –
I have just come from the Schack Gallery. There hangs a copy of the greatest
painting in the world, Michelangelo’s Jeremiah. I did not know until now that
something like that can exist, that from a picture so much can stream forth.
Our parting has also thrown its shadow on my way.
45 “Dear knavish youngster!” [Trans]
46 “An old knave.” [Trans]
47 Bad Ischl, Upper Austria. [Trans]
48 Pürkersdorf. Weininger’s home suburb in Vienna. [Trans]
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