So now begins the first war with Cordelia’ in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues me. I continually fall back, and in this backward movement I teach her...

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a...

Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all...