TRANSLATION - Rainer Maria Rilke - page a month

The men acquiesced their close quarters, they who originally came from all over; from France and from Burgundy, from the Netherlands, from Carinthian valleys, from bohemian towns and from Emporor Leopold himself. Their stories had all been shared - not just verbally - but each had experienced them themselves directly before they’d become stories, as though the men had all told of the same mother…