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The government reacted forcefully to the commotion, but at least no shots were fired, thinks Katharina. Could it be because the so-called counterrevolutionaries reminded the ancients in power of themselves when they were young idealists? The passage of time. Strange, she thinks, that a crime is cal…

A week later, Katharina is standing next to Rosa in a field, slicing off the heads of cauliflowers. It’s nice that they’re all together again for harvest duty, just as in their first year, in foundation. Katharina, Rosa, Uta as well, who wants to be an industrial designer, and Robert, the sculptor.…

For you everything was emotional froth: your fling in Frankfurt, and unfortunately also what you had with me. On each occasion, it wasn’t anything to do with the conditions, it lay in your nature. You needed an atmosphere of adventure, of conspiracy, to excite you. Our early days satisfied that, bu…

Only now has spring properly sprung. Did Katharina ever desire Hans like this? She dances around her apartment, drinks wine in the middle of the day, sketches, paints, glues collages — and loves Hans whenever he comes by, and mixed in with the pictures of love that are happening are thoughts of wom…

In the middle of April, Hans collects Katharina from a performance at the Volksbühne, The Drunken Ship, a play about Rimbaud. A Castorf production, but he didn’t want to see it with her, only afterwards does he tell her why not. You remember: My heart by the bow must vomit. The Rimbaud quote appear…