Hans Zatzka (1859–1945), Blumenreigen (details)
“At times, she feels weighted down by the quantity of her learning. Her body is young and her thinking is old. In her diary she writes that she feels “hypersaturated with all-purpose ideas and theories”, that she is “looking for another language” and “longs to return to an original purity”. She dreams of writing in a language noone knows. Words are “little embroidery stitches around a tablecloth of night”. Other sentences contradict this lassitude: “I am a will and a desire”. She does not say for what.”
— Annie Ernaux, The Years