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

But if it does, I expect of you that you, to begin with at least, will come to live
with me and also share whatever else with me. I tell you, I regard this as a matter of
course.
Please, write to me at once! Do you need money?
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O.
4th October, 1902.
Thank you for your letter. You would also surely have wanted a Bayreuth for the
two operas. 54 It is nevertheless a scandal. Even Mignon and Carmen become so
laboured.
I find the thought of an essay “On the gait of man” very pleasing, but you should
write it as soon as there is time and inclination. My feeling for what the gait of a man
says is comparatively weak, much less expressed than with you, or than with my, for
example, physiognomic impressions. It will also be useful to you with the Philistines
if you handle such a serious subject, “although . . .”.
In the end I would have had enough to do with the minutes of “Propria”.
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11th October, 1902
. . . . I have by no means rejected the “gait”, I approve of it very much, that you
lay such great worth on it, and I am myself very interested for your results. I can only
infer, from the movements of the shoulders and hands, perhaps something of the
attitude; the legs themselves hardly anything, rather more the acoustic image of the
gait . . .
54 Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” and Leoncavallos “Bajazzo”. [Arthur Gerber]
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