Jan
11
A Little Ramble
Robert Walser (1878-1956) recounting a trek in the mountains.
“I walked through the mountains today,” the account begins. “The weather was damp, and the entire region was gray.” The narrator limits himself to the observable, giving little indication of his interior state. The ending asserts the power of the mundane: “We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
