Word: beethovenhaus
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...seems to bleed with a dark stain of greenish blood"), and a full share of the pedestrian details that pad out most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster-e.g., his report of a conversation he overheard between a couple of dreamy German lovers. "They discussed unrealistically how they would spend their honeymoon. They said they would get a Mercedes-Benz...
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