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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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had to spare have groped their way along this
road ever since they began to tackle the alphabet.
No wonder if they are apt to lose their bearing
in this American labyrinth of cogs and wheels!
In parenthesis I had better warn the reader that
I can only accept responsibility for what I have
written with my own hand, not for what has
been concocted in collaboration with the Corona
Typewriting Company. I shall be curious to
see which of the two the reader will like best.

But if ever I learn to hold on to this boisterous
Pegasus I mean to sing a humble song to my
beloved Schubert, the greatest singer of all
times, to thank him for what I owe him. I owe
him everything. Even while I was lying week
after week in the dark with little hope ever to
get out of it, I used to hum to myself one after
another of his songs like the schoolboy who
goes whistling through the dark forest to pretend
that he is not afraid. Schubert was nineteen
when he composed the music to Goethe’s Erlkönig
and sent it to him with a humble dedication. I
shall never forgive the greatest poet of modern
times for not even having acknowledged this
letter with a single word of thanks to the man
who had made his song immortal, the same
Goethe who had ample time to write letters of
thanks to Zelter for his mediocre music. Goethe’s
taste in music was as bad as his taste in art, he
spent a year in Italy understanding nothing of
Gothic art, the severe beauty of the primitives
was unintelligible to him, Carlo Dolci and Guido
Reni were his ideals. Even pure Greek art at
its best left him cold, the Apollo Belvedere was

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