"Kuno Kohn is the same in green as pupil Else Lasker is in blue",
Bryller said.
If he wanted to get rid of a girl, he told her in a wonderfully
touching way about his syphilis, presenting himself as a martyr who
is making a sacrifice for the sake of her health. Most girls, crying,
took him for an important and very noble man. Only one asked
impudently one time why he didn't say that before.
Contrast between the devil-may-care skillful nihilism of Bryller and
the pure despair of Paulus.