Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories, A by Walser Robert

Author:Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Diary, Fiction, Modern Classics, Vignettes, Translated
ISBN: 978-1-59017-692-4
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2013-06-07T03:00:00+00:00

THE ROWBOAT

I THINK I have already described this scene but I want to write it again. In a rowboat in the middle of a lake sit a man and a woman. The moon is high overhead in the dark sky. The night is still and warm, perfectly suited to this dreamy, amorous adventure. Is the man in the boat a kidnapper? Is the woman the happily captivated kidnappee? That we do not know; we see only how the two of them kiss each other. The dark mountain lies like a giant in the glittering water. A castle or manor house stands on the shore with one lit window. No noise, no sound. Everything is sheathed in sweet black silence. The stars flicker high in the sky and also up from far below in the sky that lies reflected in the water. The water is the moon’s lover, she has pulled it toward her and now they are kissing, the water and the moon, like lover and beloved. The beautiful moon has plunged into the water like a bold young prince into the thick of battle. It is reflected in the water the way a beautiful, loving heart is reflected in another heart longing greedily for love. It is magnificent, the way the moon is like a lover, drowning in pleasures, and the way the water is like the happy beloved, hugging and clasping the neck of her royal darling. The man and the woman in the boat are perfectly quiet. A long kiss holds them captive. The rudder sits carelessly on the water. Does it make them happy, will it make them happy, the two of them there in that boat, the two of them kissing, the two of them lit by the light of the moon, the two of them loving each other?

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