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

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Christiania, Friday, 22nd August, 1902.
Arrived here early today 5:48. I am very pleased: Here on Monday I will see “Peer
Gynt” in the National Theater. Today I was listening to “Don Juan” here for the
second time on my journey. The first time was in Munich.
Best thanks for your letter.
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O.W.
Christiania, 23rd August, 1902.
If your excessive need to rejoice, which you project onto my arrival, would only
not then bring a disappointment upon us both! I will fulfull your wish: you will be, as
the last, so the first. I will advise you precisely of everything.
Under these circumstances I am received more cheerfully even at home, as I know
from long experience, and the food is then paradoxically even better.
I should like to go from Bergen (on the West coast of Norway, where the fjords
and glaciers are) by sea to Hamburg, and then via Magdeburg and Prague to Vienna.
But please write, in any case, to Christiania . . .
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