Orange Crate Art: Also from Robert Walser

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Also from Robert Walser

Reading is as productive as it is enjoyable. When I read, I am a harmless, nice and quiet person and I don’t do anything stupid. Ardent readers are a breed of people with great inner peace as it were. The reader has his noble, deep, and long-lasting pleasure without being in anyone else’s way or bothering anyone. Is that not glorious? I should think so!

Robert Walser, “Reading,” in A Schoolboy’s Diary, trans. Damion Searls (New York: New York Review Books, 2013).

Other Walser posts
From “The Essay”
Robert Walser, Microscripts
Staying small

[I type Wasler for Walser, again and again. Is that not dumb? I should think so! Thanks, Chris.]

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MarzekJune 04, 2014 12:01 PM
Wasler for Walser, dumb?-- I hope not! I amke taht kind of mistake all teh time!
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Also from Robert Walser

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