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I pointed to a copy of Germany and the Next War, in its glaring yellow cover the very hue of Furchtbarkeit lying on the table. "You have read it? You have really read it?" asked the General with great animation. "No," I said, "I won't go so far as to say that. But I have TRIED to read it. And I talk about it as if I had read it." The General's face fell.
His magnificent chest was gone. He was shrivelling into a tattered heap. He appeared as he lay there, a very allegory and illustration of Prussian Furchtbarkeit with the wind going out of it. "Fetch Schnapps," he moaned. "There are no Schnapps here," I said, "this is McGill University." "Then call the janitor," he said. "You killed him," I said. "I didn't. I was lying.
Lass von seiner Fahne Spitzen strahlen Sieg and Furchtbarkeit!" The excitement of the audience grew constantly bolder and more impetuous. The men left their seats and crowded around the imperial bog, repeating again and again the words "Lass von seiner Fahne Spitzen Strahlen Sieg and Furchtbarkeit!"
In his connsels let preside Wisdom, prudence, noble pride! Homely justice delling find! The emperor bowed his thanks to the audience, the orchestra commenced again playing the air, and the audience sang anew: "Lass von seiner Fahne Spitzen Strahlen Sieg und Furchtbarkeit!"
And arms and hands were lifted here and there beseechingly toward the emperor; in vain the orchestra tried to play on; the audience, with rare unanimity, as if seized with one sentiment and one wish, sang again and again: "Lass von seiner Fahne Spitzen Strahlen Sieg und Furchtbarkeit!" And then all shouted loudly, beseechingly, and withal angrily and courageously, "War! war!
How exquisitely absurd " "Sir!" said the General. "That is not to laugh. You err yourself. That is Furchtbarkeit. I did not say the book is all humour. That would be false art. Part of it is humour and part is Furchbarkeit. That passage is specially designed to frighten Admiral Jellicoe. And he won't read it!
It impresses them with a sense of our Furchtbarkeit. You have no word for that in English, I believe?" "Not outside of a livery stable," I answered. There was a pause. I was thinking of the janitor. It seemed in a sort of way I admit that I have a sentimental streak in me a deplorable thing. "Sit down," I said presently. "Thank you," answered the General, but remained standing.
The audience expressed their gratitude by an outburst of applause, and sang thereupon the second verse: "Lass von seiner Fahne Spitzen Strahlen Sieg and Furchtbarkeit Lass in seinem Rathe sitzen Weisheit, Klugheit, Redlichkeit, Und mit seiner Hoheit Blitzen Schalten our Gerechtigkeit. Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!"
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