The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald

Date: 2022-01-09
| Freiherr, you are asking me these questions as a criticism of your
| son. Yet you have just said that you were not going to interrogate
| me.’ Hardenberg was not really an old man - he was between fifty
| and sixty - but he stared at Jacob Dietmahler with an old man’s
| drooping neck and lowered head. ‘You are right, quite right. I
| took the opportunity. Opportunity, after all, is only another word
| for temptation
Chapter: 2: The Study


Date: 2022-01-10
| He had been poor and unsuccessful, had kept himself going by working
| very hard, at low wages, for the proprietor of the bookshop, and
| then, when the proprietor had died, had married his widow and come
| into the whole property. Of course the whole of Weissenfels knew
| this and approved of it. It was their idea of wisdom exactly.
Chapter: 4: Bernhard’s Red Cap


Date: 2022-01-12
| obstreperous
Chapter: 22: Now Let Me Get To Know Her


Date: 2022-01-14
| Hardenberg, in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether
| it is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to
| communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question
| being asked, a different question for every entity, which for
| the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can
| speak. It is asked incessantly, most of the time however hardly
| noticeably, even faintly, like a church bell heard across meadows
| and enclosures. Best for the painter, once having looked, to shut
| his eyes, his physical eyes though not those of the spirit, so
| that he may hear it more distinctly. You must have listened for
| it, Hardenberg, for Fraulein Sophie’s question, you must have
| strained to make it out, even though, as I think very probable,
| she does not know herself what it is
Chapter: 31: I Could Not Paint Her


Date: 2022-01-15
| colic
Chapter: 38: Karoline at Grüningen


Date: 2022-01-17
| Yes, he played well,’ George admitted. ‘Where are you going?’
| ‘I’m going out to walk by the river in the darkness. That is
| the effect the music has had on me.’ George drank off a glass
| of brandy, as nearly as possible in his stepfather’s manner,
| and staggered upstairs to join the dancing.
Chapter: 44: The Intended


Date: 2022-01-18
| Benigna
Chapter: 48: To Schlöben