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 | | Seelig wanted to make of friend Walser his Walser, his own figure, and was forever scribbling furtive notes on their walks and at meals in country inns in Toggenburg: notes that Walser, meanwhile, pretended not to see, while Seelig was busy plucking and sorting him, readying him for the killing box of literary legend. |
 | | And Walser, of course, now indeed become a figure in one of his own stories, was busy all the while, feeding Seelig little anecdotes and bits of clever stuff to draw his own self-portrait with the other's pen: the other, Seelig, all unwitting. |
 | | Walser came with dust on his shoes into the salon of Swiss literature, a salon still marked by the provincial arrogance of the Swiss National Exhibition. |
| www.eurozine.com /article/2002-10-30-bachmann-en.html (2001 words) |
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