fantasizing to myself about what kind of book I would most like this bounty to be: above all I wanted a very small font, containing many letters, many, many thin pages, so that it would take me longer to read. And then also I wished for it to be a work that would stretch me intellectually, nothing one-dimensional, nothing simple, but something that one could learn, learn by heart, poems or best of all – what a bold dream! – Goethe or Homer.
