Table of Contents
Introduction: Walter Benjamin and the Magnetic Play of Words Sam Dolbear Esther Leslie Sebastian Truskolaski ix
Part 1 Dreamworlds
Fantasy
1 Schiller and Goethe: A Layman's Vision 5
2 In a Big Old City: Novella Fragment 11
3 The Hypochondriac in the Landscape 15
4 The Morning of the Empress 19
5 The Pan of the Evening 21
6 The Second Self: A New Year's Story for Contemplation 25
Dreams
7 Dreams from Ignaz Jezower's Das Buch der Träume 31
8 Too Close 33
9 Ibizan Dream 35
10 Self-Portraits of a Dreamer 37
The Grandson 37
The Seer 38
The Lover 39
The Knower 40
The Tight-Lipped One 41
The Chronicler 42
11 Dream I 45
12 Dream II 47
13 Once Again 49
14 Letter to Toet Blaupot ten Cate 51
15 A. Christmas Song 53
16 The Moon 55
Welti's Moonlit Night 55
The Water Glass 56
The Moon 57
In the Dark 57
The Dream 57
17 Diary Notes 59
18 Review: Albert Bégum, The Romantic Soul and the Dream 63
Part 2 Travel
City and Transit
19 Still Story 73
20 The Aviator 77
21 The Death of the Father: Novella 81
22 The Siren 85
23 Sketched into Mobile Dust: Novella 89
24 Palais D…y 99
25 Review: Franz Hessel, Secret Berlin 105
26 Review: Detective Novels, on Tour 109
Landscape and Seascape
27 Nordic Sea 115
Town 116
Flowers 117
Furniture 117
Light 119
Gulls 119
Statues 120
28 Tales Out of Loneliness 123
The Wall 123
The Pipe 125
The Light 126
29 The Voyage of the Mascot 127
30 The Cactus Hedge 133
31 Reviews: Landscape and Travel 141
Part 3 Play and Pedagogy
32 Review: Collection of Frankfurt Children's Rhymes 153
33 Fantasy Sentences 159
34 Wall Calendar from Die literarische Welt for 1927 161
35 Riddles 167
The Stranger's Reply 167
Succinct 169
36 Radio Games 171
37 Short Stories 173
Why the Elephant Is Called 'Elephant' 173
How the Boat Was Invented and Why It Is Called 'Boat' 174
Funny Story from When There Were Not Yet Any People 175
38 Four Tales 177
The Warning 177
The Signature 178
The Wish 180
Thanks 180
39 On the Minute 183
40 The Lucky Hand: A Conversation about Gambling 187
41 Colonial Pedagogy: Review of Alois Jalkotzy, The Fairy Tale and the Present 195
42 Verdant Elements: Review of Tom Seidemann-Freud, Play Primer 2 and 3: Something More on the Play Primer 199
Translators' Note 205
About the Illustrations: Paul Klee 207