Status Updates From El castillo

"And staying in the middle between the exaggerations, that is, weighing the letters correctly is impossible, their value keeps changing, the thoughts that they prompt are endless and the point at which one happens to stop is determined only by accident and so the opinion one arrives at is just as accidental."

"The world unfolding to him in Olga’s story was so large, almost unbelievably so, that he couldn’t refrain from touching it with his meager experience in order to persuade himself more clearly of its existence as well as of his own."

"oh, how much I need your companionship, how lost I have felt without it ever since I've known you, to have your company, believe me, is the only dream that I've had, that and nothing else"

It's crazy that she's saying this to a mediocre liar 😬

Anyways, finished the text for the first German edition, now the rest is compiled from different materials (idk how to feel about this, but we'll see)

This breakdown of Frieda's position/her version of what the landlady has said about her and Flamm is one of the most fascinating passages in this book so far.