Posted Tuesday night, April 14, 2020.
Detail from “Inn Valley Landscape” by Lovis Corinth, 1910. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
The next guest could be seen coming from far away, silhouetted against the horizon and crossing the fields, enveloped in swirling snow. Crows with ragged wings dived down on the fluttering figure. This visitor was a young woman, and she was pulling along a sledge with two suitcases on it. The sledge kept tipping over as she hauled it across the snow-covered clods of earth. She had difficulty standing upright in the violent gusts of wind, which blew the skirts of her coat apart, and it was some time before she finally reached the major house that lay, like a last refuge, behind the black oaks. The young woman had a violin case on her back, and that, too, made the people from the Settlement stare at her.
---from “All For Nothing” by Walter Kemposki.
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