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by Benno von Archimboldi

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Then they went back to talking about Archimboldi and Mrs. Bubis showed them a very odd review that had appeared in a Berlin newspaper after the publication of Lüdicke, Archimboldi’s first novel. The review, by someone named Schleiermacher, tried to sum up the novelist’s personality in a few words. Intelligence: average. Character: epileptic. Scholarship: sloppy. Storytelling ability: chaotic. Prosody: chaotic. German usage: chaotic.

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Finally he finished his first novel. He called it Lüdicke and he had to roam the backstreets of Cologne in search of someone who would rent him a typewriter, because he had decided that he wouldn’t borrow or rent one from anyone he knew, in other words no one who knew his name was Hans Reiter. Finally he found an old man who owned an old French typewriter and wasn’t in the habit of renting it but would sometimes make an exception for writers.

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