![]() ![]() It was indeed a love story, though a one-sided affair. Just this-something that perhaps may be said only at such an hour-I loved him very, very much. I don’t know what to say-the blow is crippling. When Adorno learned of Mann’s death, he telegrammed his widow Katia:ĭear lady, they telephoned me from Frankfurt with the inconceivable news. ![]() Is it conceivable that this Scottish misunderstanding might cast some light on the complex relationship between Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno-or Tommy and Teddy, as they called themselves? This lady’s husband, it appeared, had also been mimicking an owl for the past ten years. ![]() One day his wife mentioned the matter to her neighbour. They would call to each other every evening from either side of the wall. A few years ago, a Scottish newspaper carried the story of a bird-call imitator who, to his great pride, had sustained a conversation with an owl in the next door garden for over a decade. ![]()
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