Sensation: A barely sixteen year old scholar named Neumann speaks
about maternity regulations and the bringing up of children--it
doesn't seem to him the place to talk about fallen girls--women have
understood that it is right and proper to stay where they belong--the
misery of prostitution--posed gestures. Voice. Raise the eyebrows.
I must express myself in extremes. I must decidedly condemn zionism
as a special variety of prostitution. Maternity regulations: The
mother must be protected against her children (new sensational
concept), a lady said.--She, a German specialist, contributed to the
debate: "In the place where you have left your faith, there you must
fetch it".
XI. Kohns second lover: Teenager (in one hand she had an illustrated
astronomy text).
He loved her in this way: He frequently made a note if she said
something funny to use it later (literarily). But in a cafe on a
pond--everywhere it was already evening, and haze hung like veil on
the trees and tables and waiters--he took out his notebook from the
torn inside pocket of his overcoat and read to her quietly... She
laughed and he laughed--more quietly and sadly. Each thought: This
isn't the right thing... she thought further: he isn't thoughtful...
he thought further: the poor thing, how distant she is from me...
then they went rowing.