The Golden Flower Pot

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E. T. A. Hoffman. The Golden Flower Pot

The Golden Flower Pot

Table of Contents

First Vigil

Second Vigil

Third Vigil

Fourth Vigil

Fifth Vigil

Sixth Vigil

Seventh Vigil

Eighth Vigil

Ninth Vigil

Tenth Vigil

Eleventh Vigil

Twelfth Vigil

THE END

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E. T. A. Hoffman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"And, dearest Mademoiselle! Worthy Conrector!" cried Registrator Heerbrand, "may one not, even when awake, sometimes sink into a sort of dream state? I myself have had such fits. One afternoon, for instance, during coffee, in a sort of brown study like this, in the special season of corporeal and spiritual digestion, the place where a lost Act was lying occurred to me, as if by inspiration; and last night, no farther gone, there came a glorious large Latin paper tripping out before my open eyes, in the very same way."

"Ah! most honoured Registrator," answered Conrector Paulmann, "you have always had a tendency to the Poetica; and thus one falls into fantasies and romantic humours."

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