WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GERMANY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Germany, AGDO: The apple & the tree trunk: Jona Larkin White - The Buddenbrooks - Leaving the community ---- CN => Racism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Take the book "The Buddenbrooks", open to any page, tap any spot with your finger, write down the sentence and continue the story in your own version, so that something positive comes out of it. ---- Uncle Justus, gallant as he was, stepped towards her and almost bowed as he shook her hand; then he addressed some well-chosen words to her, and she left again after receiving a kiss on her immobile lips from the consul's wife.

With steps at least as graceful as her uncle's obsequiousness, she had gone into the bathroom to wash her lips in blissful newfound peace. It was sheer perfection how she managed to spit into the sink with a curse, as loudly as possible yet just barely not too loud to be heard by her honorable uncle and the even more honorable consul. The thick phlegm now trickled slowly down the porcelain. She smiled and washed it away so the housemaid wouldn't have to wash up her snot.

The houses in this milieu were quite large, the bathroom a 5.6-meter-long corridor away from the living room, so that she almost uninhibitedly mimicked her uncle's gallant voice toward the bathroom mirror: "Oh, Miss Margarete, what a pity your mother isn't here today. The Consul's wife and she would certainly have had much to discuss with our lively company. It's quite wonderful how these two ladies are also interested in my favorite topic, the new immigrants, and occasionally even throw in some delightful ideas about new draft laws for a fairer distribution and rationing of food. But enough of these serious topics for now, in the face of this blossoming, pretty, and young lady."

The blossoming, pretty, and young lady, who in her opinion had not been particularly well characterized by these words, straightened her embarrassingly elaborate hairstyle and checked whether the small bottle containing her other uncle's exciting chemicals was still hidden in the right place.

Note: The first sentence after the italicized passage is a quote from Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks".

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