![]() Such assertions have considerable baggage. There is incredible debate and contention regarding the location. He initially puzzles over the what constitutes the source of the river. The quest of Magris along the river does appear solipsistic-but that isn't a complaint. (I had just read Prague by Arthur Phillips where the protagonist attempts to kiss a woman on the bridge and is rejected). ![]() We were not married then and I was left most mortified at making a move. I was there once on the Chain Bridge with the woman I love. ![]() ![]() My own time by the Danube has seldom been "Blue" as it were but one instead of marvel. This is a most episodic erudition, a heartbeat of time through the prism of a lifetime in a chair (recalling Gass) pondering the endless flow of a river, across Europe, across history, eventually allowing the sediment to afford upper case status- History. A parasite of hardship, he takes refuge in absolute negation, splashing about comfortably among the contradictions of existence and of culture, and flaunting the frenzy of them, instead of trying to understand the far more arduous contest between good and evil, truth and falsehood, which every day brings with it. ![]()
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