Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Cat Can't Tell
In hoffmann stories there is a perfectly decent city councellor book collector, who sits in a dressing gown in his room and is normally surrounded by old manuscripts. The brass knocker, however, at times turns into a hideous applevendor. Sometimes she is an apple vendor, and sometimes a brass knocker. And this casts a certain air of uncertainty about all the proceedings, which is perfectly deliberate. When hoffman was walking across the bridge in berlin, he often felt as if he was icapiculated in a glass bottle. He wasn't sure whether the people he saw around him were human beings or dolls. It's quite impossible for a play to go on
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