A-Infos (en) Germany, AGDO: The apple & the tree trunk: Jona Larkin White - The Buddenbrooks - Leaving the community ---- CN => Racism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Take the book "The Buddenbrooks", open to any page, tap any spot with 
your finger, write down the sentence and continue the story in your own 
version, so that something positive comes out of it. ---- Uncle Justus, 
gallant as he was, stepped towards her and almost bowed as he shook her 
hand; then he addressed some well-chosen words to her, and she left 
again after receiving a kiss on her immobile lips from the consul's wife.
With steps at least as graceful as her uncle's obsequiousness, she had 
gone into the bathroom to wash her lips in blissful newfound peace. It 
was sheer perfection how she managed to spit into the sink with a curse, 
as loudly as possible yet just barely not too loud to be heard by her 
honorable uncle and the even more honorable consul. The thick phlegm now 
trickled slowly down the porcelain. She smiled and washed it away so the 
housemaid wouldn't have to wash up her snot.

The houses in this milieu were quite large, the bathroom a 
5.6-meter-long corridor away from the living room, so that she almost 
uninhibitedly mimicked her uncle's gallant voice toward the bathroom 
mirror: "Oh, Miss Margarete, what a pity your mother isn't here today. 
The Consul's wife and she would certainly have had much to discuss with 
our lively company. It's quite wonderful how these two ladies are also 
interested in my favorite topic, the new immigrants, and occasionally 
even throw in some delightful ideas about new draft laws for a fairer 
distribution and rationing of food. But enough of these serious topics 
for now, in the face of this blossoming, pretty, and young lady."

The blossoming, pretty, and young lady, who in her opinion had not been 
particularly well characterized by these words, straightened her 
embarrassingly elaborate hairstyle and checked whether the small bottle 
containing her other uncle's exciting chemicals was still hidden in the 
right place.

Note: The first sentence after the italicized passage is a quote from 
Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks".

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