When the half-decayed corpse was pulled from the water, the doctor, still drunk, began to make bad jokes.  Dr. Bryller vomited.

All talking, thinking, writing is useless; a corpse pulled from the water, lying dead in front of you, ruins everything written with its terrible distortion.  See how the face and the hands are rigid as though clamped in iron!  As though they are screaming to get out of themselves!

VI.  Lunatic asylum scene:  the insane red-haired sister of Martin Müller (Maria).

“The earth is getting dark”, said Maria, the insane red-haired sister of Martin Müller. (She loves her brother).  She strokes little Kohn, but says:  “I can love only saints”.  All around were the melodies of the evening, which conceal everything as with a silk veil:  the green trees, the longing earth, the bench with the red-haired girl and the little humpback.

In the lunatic asylum:  one inmate, a lady with hair already rather gray, said:  “If one stops here too long, one stays.”—­A modern writer who imagines he is there only to study the milieu, but who has, in reality, a softening of the brain, etc.

VII.  Kohn’s first lover (on Laaks’ order):  Hysterical person, the bugs really crept around in the kitchen.

VIII.  The end of Dr. Bryller.

IX.  Schulz the writer and Kitty the cocotte.

(Kitty said “Not so loud” as Schulz was telling her about God.)

X. Lecture of the scholar Neumann: 

Sensation:  A barely sixteen year old scholar named Neumann speaks about maternity regulations and the bringing up of children—­it doesn’t seem to him the place to talk about fallen girls—­women have understood that it is right and proper to stay where they belong—­the misery of prostitution—­posed gestures.  Voice.  Raise the eyebrows.  I must express myself in extremes.  I must decidedly condemn zionism as a special variety of prostitution.  Maternity regulations:  The mother must be protected against her children (new sensational concept), a lady said.—­She, a German specialist, contributed to the debate:  “In the place where you have left your faith, there you must fetch it”.

XI.  Kohn’s second lover:  Teenager (in one hand she had an illustrated astronomy text).

He loved her in this way:  He frequently made a note if she said something funny to use it later (literarily).  But in a cafe on a pond—­everywhere it was already evening, and haze hung like veil on the trees and tables and waiters—­he took out his notebook from the torn inside pocket of his overcoat and read to her quietly...  She laughed and he laughed—­more quietly and sadly.  Each thought:  This isn’t the right thing... she thought further:  he isn’t thoughtful... he thought further:  the poor thing, how distant she is from me... then they went rowing.

XII.  Bar scene in Nuremberg:  Kunstmayer.

They are all blissfully drunk and can hardly speak clearly anymore.  Slurring, someone says:  “Dede do dadä”. – What are these brutish sleepers worth?—­“See how the gaze of this worker is turned inward like an ox’s eye “, said Paulus.