More fascinating material from you (this and Wilhelm and Liselotte), thanks as always!
Danzig, Poland
A memory that always makes me laugh: I happened upon one of those large world maps on the wall of some department hall during my freshman year of college, glanced at it, and was shocked to find Danzig/Gdansk smack in the middle of Poland. "That can't be right! I *swear* it's right near the border with Germany." I walked away with feelings of shame that my European geography wasn't as good as I prided myself on. To the point where I went home and got a second opinion from a different map, which, to my dismay, agreed with the first one.
Later that day, I realized my mental map of Europe, and Germany especially (thanks, Fritz), was heavily skewed toward the second half of the 18th century, the setting of that novel I'd spent most of high school writing. Oops!
Re: Günter Grass
So you've heard of him, have you? :D
More fascinating material from you (this and Wilhelm and Liselotte), thanks as always!
Danzig, Poland
A memory that always makes me laugh: I happened upon one of those large world maps on the wall of some department hall during my freshman year of college, glanced at it, and was shocked to find Danzig/Gdansk smack in the middle of Poland. "That can't be right! I *swear* it's right near the border with Germany." I walked away with feelings of shame that my European geography wasn't as good as I prided myself on. To the point where I went home and got a second opinion from a different map, which, to my dismay, agreed with the first one.
Later that day, I realized my mental map of Europe, and Germany especially (thanks, Fritz), was heavily skewed toward the second half of the 18th century, the setting of that novel I'd spent most of high school writing. Oops!