Anyone studying German history should be aware that, in addition to the German language being very difficult already, in ye olden days they made it much more difficult by using an impossible-to-read form of handwriting called Sütterlin Schrift. I did not know of this until today but it is now destroying my life and my vision. The alphabet is reproduced above. Imagine if those squiggles were much sloppier. Look at that lower-case y!
That is literally my ultimate nightmare. I actually go to bed at night and imagine that I will get to the Binswanger archive next year and they will tell me that they were lying, that his letters aren't really typed up, but rather all hand-written in impossible-to-read German. Mental suicide swiftly follows.
ReplyDeleteYou might need to see an existential psychoanalyst about that!
ReplyDeleteBut they would just tell me to get in touch with my Angst and then I'd be back in the same place!
ReplyDeletethem psychobabble types love circular logic don't they!
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