“My German has not been utilitarian. It has been a language of mourning and of loss. And in that, there has been comfort,” writes Margaret Drabble.https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/11/14/german-lessons/ …
@parisreview: this was a thoroughly lovely read, and I don't mean to be a pedant, but... was it Drabble's intention to include five (5) spelling mistakes in a two-line excerpt from Rilke's "Der Panther"? in a piece entitled "German Lessons"??pic.twitter.com/DdWN5L44e8