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…“ich [Doktor Skowronnek] glaube, sie konnten beide [der Kaiser und Herr von Trotta] Österreich nicht überleben.“

Thank you Reem!
A great family story. I don't like putting #Radetzymarsch aside.
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Our sole remaining task is to describe the district captain’s final days. They slipped by virtually like one day. Time flowed past him, a broad, even river, murmuring monotonously.

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„Der Krieg der österreichischen Armee begann mit Militärgerichten.“

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„Der Leutnant Trotta starb nicht mit der Waffe, sondern mit zwei Wassereimern in der Hand.“

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„Man verstand Onufrij gut. Er hatte dem Leutnant gedient wie der Leutnant dem Kaiser. Es gab kein Vaterland mehr. Es zerbrach, es zersplitterte."

“Father,” Carl Joseph began. “I’m leaving the army.”
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“After this disaster,” said the father, “that struck us two days ago, such an act amounts to . . . to . . . desertion.”

“The whole army has deserted,” Carl Joseph replied.
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„Das reine Silber seines Bartes färbte das grün gedämpfe Licht des Tages und den rötlichen Glanz des Teppichs. Es atmete die leuchtende Milde eines unbekannten, vielleicht eines jenseitigen Tags, der schon mitten im irdischen Leben Herrn von Trottas anbrach,

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And so Herr von Trotta seemed like some character from a province that was historically rather than geographically remote, like a ghost from the Fatherland’s past, the embodied pang of a patriotic conscience.
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„Der Kaiser trug die Uniform eines Generals und der Herr von Trotta die Uniform eines Bezirkshauptmanns. Und sie glichen zwei Brüdern, von denen der eine ein Kaiser, der andere ein Bezirkshauptmann geworden war.“

. . . and gradually the lieutenant saw all the somber events of his life fitting together in a somber mosaic as if manipulated by some powerful, hateful, invisible wire puller who was intent on destroying him.
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It was quite obvious, it was, as people say, as clear as day, that Lieutenant Trotta, the grandson of the hero of Solferino, was partly bringing about the doom of others... he was one of those unhappy beings on whom an evil power had cast its evil eye.
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I have a #Roth24 question: does the father know that his son Carl Joseph was having an affair with Frau Slama? (I’m on the page where he says to Carl Joseph “it appears you have a soft heart”). #Radetzkymarch

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Diesen Entschluss auszuführen, war er nicht imstande. Er wusste es auch. Und er wartete in Wirklichkeit auf irgendein merkwürdiges Glück, das ihm eines Tages in die Arme fallen und ihn befreien würde für alle Zeiten …

I’m not too far in, but it’s so far all about a family of extremely rigid & emotionally stunted men, but I think Roth is making it clear that the society they’re in is to blame for that. Women (so far) are either marginal or distractions. #Roth24 #Radetzkymarsch #Radetzkymarch

I'm not reading along, but the double diminutive "kleinen, grauen Köpfchen" caught my eye. What does it say about [the author's opinion of] women?

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“Die reiferen Männer ließen die Köpfe hängen und gedachten ihrer Manöver. Die ältlichen Frauen saßen im benachbarten Park, und ihre kleinen, grauen Köpfchen zitterten. Und es war Sommer.” #Roth24 #Radetzkymarsch

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Herr von Trotta resembled a virtuoso in whom the fire has died, whose soul has become empty and hollow, and whose fingers strike the right notes only with cold, seasoned precision thanks to their own dead memory.
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„Nicht einmal der Kaiser trägt heute die Verantwortung für seine Monarchie. Ja, es scheint, dass Gott selbst die Verantwortung für die Welt nicht mehr tragen will.“

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„Er [der Kaiser] sah die Sonne in seinem Reiche untergehen, aber er sagte nichts.“

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„Aber dem Leutnant Trotta ... wurde es plötzlich klar, dass es zwei Arten von Stille geben könne. Und vielleicht, dachte er weiter, gab es mehrere Arten von Stille, wie es so viele Arten von Geräuschen gab."

So #Bookbirds, to find our group read hashtags, you will have to do individual searches. Those with the book📚 and the bird🐦 don't show up unless they're included in the search. So
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Yes, thus began what he called “life” and what may have been life at that time: driving in a smooth carriage amid the dense perfumes of mellow spring, next to a woman who loved you.
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Die ganze Welt war verändert.
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Für die Herstellung von Borsten bestanden unbequeme und kostspielige Vorschriften; die Fabrikanten hielten sie nicht gerne ein.
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Fremde Männer…erklärten die Verfassung und die Fehler der Verfassung…Die Arbeiter begannen zu streiken.

All processes in nature and all events of everyday life suddenly achieved an ominous and incomprehensible meaning. Incomprehensible was the whispering chorus of crickets, incomprehensible the twinkling of the stars, incomprehensible the velvety blue of the night . . .
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„Die Zeit will uns nicht mehr!“ [Chojnicki]

Yes, Death was coming to old Jacques like a vivacious girl in spring, and Jacques opened his old mouth and showed Death his sparse yellow teeth. He lifted his hand, pointed to the window, and, still giggling, shook his head.
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Of all the words that had lately come into currency this was the one he hated most,perhaps because it was only one letter away from the most deleterious of all words, which was 'revolution'.That he wouldn't hear of it. It did not exist anywhere in his personal vocabulary #Roth24 📚🐦

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„Er [der Bezirkshauptmann] nahm auf der Treppe sogar zwei Stufen auf einmal, trat schnell ins Herrenzimmer, stieg auf einen Stuhl und holte das Bild des Helden von Solferino vom Haken.“

But Lieutenant Trotta, more sensitive than his comrades, sadder than they, his soul constantly echoing with the dark, roaring wings of Death, which he had already encountered twice—
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