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Updated: June 5, 2025
But what is not justified is his admiration of himself an admiration so pronounced that it has landed him in a lunatic asylum. Our systems of chronology ought to be recast, cries he; and even as men have dated from A.D., so are they to date from A.N., the year of Nietzsche. Not that he expects immediate recognition: "Erst das Uebermorgen gehoert mir. Einige werden posthum geboren."
After supper the hymn "Es wurde geboren der Himmels König von der unbefleckten Jungfrau Maria" is sung, and then the young people usually play Christmas games. Little houses are made of flour or bran, with a piece of money in one, which belongs to the person who selects that house.
But such a thing could not have occurred to him. He did not even think of her as she thought of herself, torturingly as not young, not in any degree good-looking, not geboren, not even female. He did not think of her at all, except as one of those born to serve in such manner as their superiors commanded.
It used to go the rounds of the German newspapers, and I translated it, a long while ago, when I thought that I too was in 'Arkadien geboren'. Aloof in the air it rises O'er the rush, the plunge, the death; On the thronging banks of the river There is neither pulse nor breath. Forever it hovers and poises Aloof in the moonlit air; As light as mist from the rapids, As heavy as nightmare.
One of their favourite songs begins: "Blyden nacht, O blyden nacht! Messias is geboren!" That is Flemish, their language, and it means: "Happy night, oh, happy night! The Messiah is born." Another song begins: "Een Kindeken is ons geboren," which is the same as "Unto us a Child is born."
None of us knew her origin I doubt if she knew it herself: beyond her husband and children, assignable relatives she had none. "Sie war nicht in dem Tal geboren, Man wusste nicht woher sie kam." Her husband met her many years ago at a foreign watering-place, and married her there after a week's acquaintance much to the scandal of his family, for the lady was an actress not unknown to fame.
I was glad, all the same, to have him for a partner, as, being a Durchlaucht, he was entitled to a seat in the front row, and I preferred prancing about with my hochgeboren high-stepper to having to take a back seat in the third row with a minor geboren.
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