"Come, my faithful fiddle! This is not the world for you and me!"

Read along: "Life of a good-for-nothing" by Joseph Von Eichendorff (chs. 1 - 5)

Hello friends,

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, wherever you are, and had some time to move slowly. For the next two weeks, we’ll discuss a novella on the topic of idleness by Joseph von Eichendorff, a German Romantic poet best known for his “Life of a Good-For-Nothing,” our tale of the hour. His poetry has a musical quality to it, lending itself to…