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The accounts of Tonio Kröger in the days of his youth eerily align with mine. The anguish of this immature young poet desperately hoping to draw the attention of the beautiful lively vivacious blonde girl is touching and comic because it’s so true. He knows, as I have learned by hard experience, that love like that is impossible for the morose affectations of the brooding young artist.

A mysterious finale to Tristan. The writer Spinell is bested by the most preposterous creature.

Tristan is such a beautiful story, but filled with mystery and irony.