To Room Nineteen
“It is no more charming, however, than ten thousand others; although it is known to an astonishing number of people, some of whom have actually been there, while others have savoured its attractions in imagination only. Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty who – or so one hopes – must be embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. This history of O— is fascinating; for this is true of every village. Its location has every advantage, not lea...st that of being so near to the frontier that when finally located on the map it seems to the exbuberant holiday-making fancy that one might toss a stone from it into Austria. This is, of course, not the case, since a high wall of mountains forms a natural barrier to any such adventure, besides making it essential that all supplies for O— and the ten or a dozen villages in the valley above it must come from Germany. This wall of mountains is in fact the reason why O— is German, and has always been German; although its inhabitants, or so it would seem from the songs and stories they offer the summer and winter visitors on every possible occasion, take comfort from the belief that Austria is at least their spiritual home.MoreLess
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