FOOTNOTES:
[82] They have a whole room for winter quarters, of which in
summer the windows are merely thrown open.
[83] Such was the general title of the secluded Emeritus, the
court preacher, Spener, who resided there, and who was related to
the noble old pious Spener, not only on the paternal side, but
also on the spiritual.
[84] They had these names as twins.
[85] The grammar seems to require "a still almost maidenly
looking woman of seventeen years," but the translator did not
dare to think Jean Paul could have meant that, consistently with
the ages of the three children, though, as an Oriental, Chariton
may have married _very_ young.
[86] The Tartarus with Julienne's father's heart.
[87] Such is the name of that mount which Albano found in the
well-known spring night.
[88] Linda de Romeiro.
[89] The reason is, that after her recovery she was still
short-sighted, and to a short-sighted person the dew is so much
the more brilliant.
[90] This proposition, that pure music, without text, cannot
represent anything immoral, deserves to be more investigated and
developed by me.
[91] It cannot be objected to me, that in fact the scenes of my
book have been actually experienced, and that no one would wish
to experience any better; for in the representation of fancy
reality assumes new charms, charms with which every other faded
present magically glimmers through the memory. I appeal here to
the sensations of the very characters who figure in _Titan_,
whether they would not in my book--in case they should ever light
upon it--find in the pictured scenes, which, however, are their
own, a higher enchantment, which has gone from the real, and
which, to be sure, might produce such an effect--but altogether
illusorily--that my characters could wish to live _their own
life_.
NINTH JUBILEE.
PLEASURE OF COURT-MOURNING.--THE BURIAL.--ROQUAIROL.--LETTER
TO HIM.--THE SEVEN LAST WORDS IN THE WATER.--THE SWEARING OF
ALLEGIANCE.--MASQUERADE.--PUPPET MASQUERADE.--THE HEAD IN
THE AIR, TARTARUS, THE SPIRIT-VOICE, THE FRIEND, THE
CATACOMB, AND THE TWO UNITED MEN.
46. CYCLE.
Ripening love is the stillest: the shady flowers in this spring, as in
the other, shun sunlight. Albano spun himself deep into his
Sunday-dreams, and drew, as well as he could, the green poppy-leaf of
reality into his web,--namely, the Monday, which was to show him, at the
state-burial of the Prince, the brother of his maiden-friend.
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