Berlin, City of Stones: Book One
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ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch (5:2)
CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH (5:3)
"Hello." (6:2)
"Good day." (6:3)
"Just aboard?"
"Er...No. Just changing compartments. A disagreement."
"My company in the last was quite, uh...lacking." (6:5)
"And although I seem unable to escape those of similar persuasion, at least here sleep keeps them at bay." (6:6)
"Assuming...I'm sorry, I mean you no offense."
"No, no, none taken."
"Would you mind?"
"Not at all." (7:2)
"Let me just--" ch ch ch ch (7:3)
ch ch ch ch ch (7:4)
"Do you write?" (7: 5)
"? Oh. No. Not in this, I mean. This is for drawing." (7:6)
"An artist! Wonderful! What sorts of things do you draw? Religious scenes and all the rest?" (7:7)
"No, only what I see. I don't really make things up. I draw things I see, things that strike me." (7:8)
"May I...?" (7:9)
"There's not very much in it; I haven't had it very long." (7:10)
"I thought it was a writing tablet. You draw on ruled paper?" (7:11)
"Yes. My diary is a sketchbook, it's blank. I like it that way." (7:12)
"I'm not sure why." (7:13)
"They are nothing, really. I mean..."
"They are something. The people. But in there it's just for practice. I don't feel too strongly about any of it. Just trying to record what I see." (8:3)
"Yes? Me too." (8:4)
"You draw?" (8:5)
"Ha ha, no. I try to do it with words. I write."
"Novelist?"
"Journalist."
"Less eloquent in my choice of language, however. These are really quite excellent." (9:4)
"That's very kind of you, Herr...?" (9:5)
"I'm sorry, how rude of me. Severing. Kurt Severing."
"Marthe Muller. Are you travelling on an assignment of some sort?"
"Yes. I've just been checking some background details for someone else's article as a favor to my editor." (9:10)
"And you? I see by your luggage that this is no small journey." (9:11)
"I'm from Koln. I'm afraid I've never been to the city before."
"Are you?"
"Excuse me?" (10:2)
"Afraid. Are you afraid?" (10:3)
"No. Do I have reason to be?"
"Well, Koln is sizable, but is it a city in the modern sense? Our destination is certainly such a place. I would think a degree of apprehension normal for a first-time visitor." (10:6)
"Our friend here...His is one among many factions which clash in the streets with increasing frequency." (10:7)
"Communists, socialists, nationalists, democrats, republicans, criminals, beggars, thieves and everything in between. All mixed up together--" (10:8)
"Are you trying to make me afraid Herr Severing?" (10:9)
"Of course not. Forgive me. It's easy for me to get carried away, talking about it."
"I've lived there for some time, you see...I've watched it grow and change immensely in the past ten years...There is more of everything and everything moves faster than ever." (11:2)
"Of course, that means there's plenty for a new arrival to be excited about. It is, as many people are fond of saying, second only to Paris as the cultural center of Europe." (11:3)
"The theater, the arts--While I've been out of town they've released the first German 'talkie.' Can you imagine?" (11:4)
"There are something like, I don't know, 3,000 newspapers and magazines published right in the city, so for me..." (11:5)
"I suppose your discontent must have a lot to do with your profession." (11:6)
"Don't get me wrong Fraulein Muller; I have many misgivings..." (11:7)
"There is much about it that troubles me." CH CH CH CH CH CH CH C (11:8)
"But in the end, I can call no other place my home." H CH CH CH CH CH ch ch ch ch ch (11:9)
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