Berlin, City of Stones: Book One

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ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch (5:2)

CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH (5:3)

"Hello." (6:2)

"Good day." (6:3)

"Just aboard?"

"Er...No. Just changing compartments. A disagreement." (6:4)

"My company in the last was quite, uh...lacking." (6:5)

"And although I seem unable to escape those of similar persuasion, at least here sleep keeps them at bay." (6:6)

"Assuming...I'm sorry, I mean you no offense."

"No, no, none taken." (6:7)

"Would you mind?" (7:1)

"Not at all." (7:2)

"Let me just--" ch ch ch ch (7:3)

ch ch ch ch ch (7:4)

"Do you write?" (7: 5)

"? Oh. No. Not in this, I mean. This is for drawing." (7:6)

"An artist! Wonderful! What sorts of things do you draw? Religious scenes and all the rest?" (7:7)

"No, only what I see. I don't really make things up. I draw things I see, things that strike me." (7:8)

"May I...?" (7:9)

"There's not very much in it; I haven't had it very long." (7:10)

"I thought it was a writing tablet. You draw on ruled paper?" (7:11)

"Yes. My diary is a sketchbook, it's blank. I like it that way." (7:12)

"I'm not sure why." (7:13)

"They are nothing, really. I mean..." (8:2)

"They are something. The people. But in there it's just for practice. I don't feel too strongly about any of it. Just trying to record what I see." (8:3)

"Yes? Me too." (8:4)

"You draw?" (8:5)

"Ha ha, no. I try to do it with words. I write." (9:1)

"Novelist?"

"Journalist." (9:2)

"Less eloquent in my choice of language, however. These are really quite excellent." (9:4)

"That's very kind of you, Herr...?" (9:5)

"I'm sorry, how rude of me. Severing. Kurt Severing."

"Marthe Muller. Are you travelling on an assignment of some sort?" [sic] (9:6)

"Yes. I've just been checking some background details for someone else's article as a favor to my editor." (9:10)

"And you? I see by your luggage that this is no small journey." (9:11)

"I'm from Koln. I'm afraid I've never been to the city before."

"Are you?" (10:1)

"Excuse me?" (10:2)

"Afraid. Are you afraid?" (10:3)

"No. Do I have reason to be?" (10:5)

"Well, Koln is sizable, but is it a city in the modern sense? Our destination is certainly such a place. I would think a degree of apprehension normal for a first-time visitor." (10:6)

"Our friend here...His is one among many factions which clash in the streets with increasing frequency." (10:7)

"Communists, socialists, nationalists, democrats, republicans, criminals, beggars, thieves and everything in between. All mixed up together--" (10:8)

"Are you trying to make me afraid Herr Severing?" (10:9)

"Of course not. Forgive me. It's easy for me to get carried away, talking about it." (11:1)

"I've lived there for some time, you see...I've watched it grow and change immensely in the past ten years...There is more of everything and everything moves faster than ever." (11:2)

"Of course, that means there's plenty for a new arrival to be excited about. It is, as many people are fond of saying, second only to Paris as the cultural center of Europe." (11:3)

"The theater, the arts--While I've been out of town they've released the first German 'talkie.' Can you imagine?" (11:4)

"There are something like, I don't know, 3,000 newspapers and magazines published right in the city, so for me..." (11:5)

"I suppose your discontent must have a lot to do with your profession." (11:6)

"Don't get me wrong Fraulein Muller; I have many misgivings..." (11:7)

"There is much about it that troubles me." CH CH CH CH CH CH CH C (11:8)

"But in the end, I can call no other place my home." H CH CH CH CH CH ch ch ch ch ch (11:9)