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ich will auch!!!!!!!!!! freu mich schon auf deinen bericht, bussis
Liebe Magdalena,
freilich könnte ich auf Deutsch schreiben, but English is more appropriate – above all because I write to recommend a book in English that will most likely enhance your enjoyment of America.
Let us however begin with a long preface to a short message. First of all, we have met. Naturally enough myself being a man and yourself being an attractive young women, it is I who would remember. We met at Lassak’s, Moni Lassak is my favourite cousin, and saw each other again on different occasions for example at Olga’s wedding, Olga is my god-daughter. However it was when the trio Zita-Sophia-Pia went to Chile (Pia adding in a Polsh detour) that I got to know you better. They had all three promised to write to me and it was Sophia who already in her second missive referred me to her Xanga blog. Links lead me to you, to Assia and to María in Vienna. I know Assia of course (I didn’t know she wrote her name with two ‘s’s, but her blog woüld suggest so). I don’t know María, but she seems an exceedingly likeable person, so some day I’ll write to her.
However I imagined a slightly closer connection to yourself. Not only because myself and all my family, a very large family, nine brothers and sisters in my generation and the direct descendants of my parents number more than sixty spread over the planet from India across Europe to the Americas, have always felt a particular love for Austria, but also when I was was christened (in the 1940s !) my god-parents were Anni Schwarzenberg and Franzi Trautmannsdorf. So there! A further very important detail is the exceptional joy and blessing that the whole family get along in fact love each other very much: horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Many years ago one of my three sisters at table asked my father:<< Daddy, how come we are the nicest people we know ? >>. This may sound very conceited, but I mention it because I suspect it to be rather like your own situation. So there you are Magdalena and that’s enough reason to think I like you very much.
Of course your friends, written accounts and sense of humour add to this preconception, but let us now return to the matter of the book. The book I’d particularly like to recommend is called “Juan in America” and deals with the adventures of a particularly attractive and athletic young Englishman who goes to study in the Northeast USA. The book is written in the 1930s - prohibition is hence an important element – and pictures America with an accuracy rare to be found. It is a very well written, very witty and very funny book. Somewhat satyrical of course. It is written by Eric Linklater, a man from the Orkneys (islands north of Scotland), a poet and a Celt at heart whose use and choice of words is a delight. Indeed on occasion the fast pace action or the occasional long drawn out description can tempt the reader to too great a hurry.
Needless to say the book is out of print, but can be obtained via Amazon.com at a very reasonale price.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/104-0296562-4420722?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22Juan+in+America%22+%2B%22Eric+Linklater%22&Go.x=9&Go.y=8&Go=Go
That’s it Magdalena. I look forward to seeing you on some future festive occasion in Munich or elsewhere and to an at least short conversation, all the more so if you have read the book. Meanwhile I’lll continue to thoroughly enjoy your account of yourself and your experiences in the USA in your blog.
Lots of Love,
Francesco
(francesco@von hildebrand.de)
are you going to small peach?! ;-))
it seems you have big fans out there... INCLUDING ME!
werde dir jetzt mal wieder auch *persönlich* schreiben!
dickes bussi!
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