Eastern Sky: Wednesday morning view from an office window
Three passages from Homage to Ruth Berlau, ABACUS 1999, ed. Peter Ganick
* Mary Engle writes to her daughter in 1959 about her drawings, “What I do is junk.”
**Only yesterday did the view emerge that Homage to Ruth Berlau is written in Walter Benjamin’s voice – the summer in Svendborg – Berlau, Brecht’s lover, would have been present during some of the conversations; Benjamin would have suppressed any reference to those conversations out of deference to Weigl. The plan for the postwar Model Books may well have started in Svendborg.
Retyped on Smith Corona Electra 12
