And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in "Ma young and lovely lady!" I muttered to myself with some b...itterness. "And this is, of course, the opening scene of Vol. I. She is the Heroine. And I am one of those subordinate characters that only turn up when needed for the development of her destiny, and whose final appearance is outside the church, waiting to greet the Happy Pair!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are Herr Karl Kraus, aren't you?" asked a young man who was sharing my compartment on a train and who had overestimated my de...fenselessness. "No," I said, which meant that I admitted it. Because if I had been someone else, I would have started a conversation with that idiot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the pers...onal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »