Capitolo 88
old, life is tied up to be full, if only of beer in Berlin, even if
German student life was on the whole one the thinnest of beer as a
American looked on him, but although nothing except the small fragments
remained of the education that was promising so--or
promised--this is what the most greater part often happens in the life, when
by-products result to be more jewels of the brace. The German
the university and law of German were failures; German society, in a
American sense, doesn't exist, or if it existed, it never showed
it to an American; the German theater, on the other hand it was
excellent, and German work, with the ballet a was worth
you travel to Berlin; but the curious one and making perplexed result of the
total failure of German education was that the student is only
clear profit--his/her solo I pass to a taller life--it came from duration
wasted; studies neglected; vices satisfied; education reversed; --
it came from the despised beer-garden and music-room; and it was
accidental, not deliberate, unexpected.
When his/her companions insisted on to spend two or three afternoons
in the week in music-salt, drinking beer smoking German,
tobacco, and looking at women working to sweater German and fat, while a
orchestra played dull music, Adams went with them to the interest of
the society, but without presence of enjoyment; and when Mr.
Apthorp softly protested that he exaggerated his/her indifference,
for clearly him Beethoven enjoyed, Adams simply responded that him
Abhorred Beethoven; and felt a disdains surprise when the Mr. Apthorp
and the other ones laughed as if theirs thought of him/it humor. He saw anybody
adapt in him. He supposed that, except musicians, every one
thought Beethoven a hole as every one except mathematical
mathematics of thought a hole. Sitting so to his/her beer-table,
mentally impassive, he was one day surprises to notice that his
mind it followed the movement of a Symphonies. He could not be
more surprised it had him suddenly read a new language. Among the
wonder of education, this was the more marvellouses. A jail-wall