My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein by Suzanne Stutman

Author:Suzanne Stutman
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

71. Hamburg / Hotel Atlantic / August 13, 1928

My dear:

As soon as we arrived I went to the Hamburg Am. line to ask for letters, but whatever mail is here was already on the boat so I can’t have it till tomorrow. We found much to our disgust that we have a train trip of 2 1/2 hrs. in the morning, beginning at 7:30.1 thought the boat left right in front of the hotel, there is plenty of water, all around the city. The city is quite interesting, but I haven’t seen much of it. This afternoon we went out to the famous menagerie of Hagenbeck.1 It is the most amazing place, animals beyond your dreams of strangeness and I am awfully tired today and will welcome the rest on the boat. And heavy hearted as well, I love you and want to be with you and cannot see what to do. I think I should literally have died without the pictures this summer. You will be drowned in my letters and cards when you reach Munich. I wrote a terrible one from Berlin, but Tom dear it couldn’t begin to say what I felt. I keep going over the same thing again and again, what new thing can I say? I live back upon times I remember with you, times I remember distinctly that I have looked at you or that you have kissed me. It turns me inside out, I’ll ask you no more what you mean to do. My attitude seems always to be the suppliant beauty. Hagenbeck is a great dealer in animals, supplies the zoos all over the world. Maurice bought two black swans and four flamingoes for his country place. They are so beautiful, and we expect to have the flamingoes on board. They are partly a pearly white with soft red orange and pinkish feathers, the wings lined with black, and very very thin red lacquer legs. I am glad to stop travelling. Berlin was so much nicer than I had expected, all Victorian classic, and the most superb museums. You must go if only for those. The paintings are magnificent, and every inch of the Völkerkunde museum also. There is an enormous museum of classic sculpture,2 a lot of it bad but that is where the lovely Egyptian princess is that I sent you. Isn’t she like Edla? I’ll write you if possible and mail from England or France on Board. Will you please send the word where to write to you henceforth,—I am so sad that you did not see me before I left. It seems as though you would never make the effort again. I hope all goes well, and that you are working. Tom what more can I say to you! I hate to put the burden of my self and my love and my sadness upon you, but you have to know how it is with me. I love you, Aline

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