From Robert Walser
“Sunday is something that only ever existed at home, where you were a child.”
Walser walking
“Without walking and the contemplation of nature which is connected with it, without this equally delicious and instructive, equally refreshing and constantly admonishing search, I deem myself lost, and indeed am lost.”
From Robert Walser
“That early time was certainly wonderful.”
From Robert Walser
“What was important melted away, and I devoted undivided attention to the most unimportant things and was very happy doing so.”
Also from Robert Walser
“When I read, I am a harmless, nice and quiet person and I don’t do anything stupid.”
From Robert Walser
The more I read of Robert Walser, the more I want to read.
Staying small
Words from Robert Walser and John O’Reilly.
Robert Walser, Microscripts
“Reading these works for the first time, I think of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, and Max Jacob, but Walser resembles only himself.”