The spirit of anti-pathos

  • David Trotter
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Abstract

In the spring of 1921, Eliot planned for restless Marie an evocative stay at a lake seventeen miles south-west of Munich —

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain

— and Bertolt Brecht sat in a hut beside the same lake, dodging a hailstorm. Marie seems to have enjoyed a coffee and an hour’s conversation. Brecht thought the event worth remembering because his girlfriend was also inside the hut, while her clothes were outside.

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