Murr learns to write:
E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, trans. Anthea Bell (1999).
And look: here’s the cuff. And the manual.
Also from this novel
“Scholarly voracity”
[Hilmar Curas: “A teacher and author of the manual Murr mentions, entitled Calligraphia Regia. Königliche Schreibfeder, published in 1741.”]
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
“My little right paw”
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Oh my goodness, this applies to toy dolls and bears too!
Frex = Fresca
Writing instruments for all!
This work is a split narrative. The conceit is that Murr has written on the backs of his master’s manuscript pages (a biography of a composer) and that the two texts were mistakenly printed as a single volume. So the texts alternate and get cut off in the middle of —
Like that.
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