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Month: June 2014

Meingast's Guide to the Good Life/Translations

Meingast’s Guide to the “Good” Life

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 3 Comments

From Guide to the “Good” Life (1926): It’s common Austrian wisdom that the more one reads and thinks, the sicker and uglier the body becomes. ...

Maxims and Aphorisms/Uncategorized

Marginalia

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

This was written in Meingast’s distinctive script next to Luther’s hymn “Ein neues Lied wir heben an” in a hymnal owned by the Universit...

Meingast's Life/Uncategorized

Pets

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 1 Comment

By all accounts, Meingast was fond of animals. In 1910 or 1911, he adopted two kittens. Dr. Marie de Besombes (a librarian at the BNF) thinks there’s a go...

Poetry/Translations

Poem: “Towards the city centre to Gaudenzdorf”

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Kristin Primus / 0 Comment

This short poem was composed after Meingast rode the new steam tram in Vienna in 1887: Too close and too many and there is no near handle/and we know all of it ...

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