5/11/2023 0 Comments Kappus rilkeAt that time Horaček had been working there as chaplain of the establishment, and he still remembered the boy of those days perfectly. “So young René Rilke has become a poet.”Īnd I heard about the small, pale boy, whom his parents had sent more than fifteen years before to the military Unterrealschule in Sankt-Pölten, intending that he should afterwards become an officer. Then he turned over the leaves here and there, scanned a few verses, looked thoughtfully into the distance, and finally nodded. “Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poems”? he asked thoughtfully. He took the volume out of my hand, considered the binding, and shook his head. I was so engrossed in my reading that I hardly noticed that the only one of our masters who was not an officer, the learned kindly chaplain of the Academy, Horaček, had joined me. It was in the late autumn of 1902-I was sitting under some century-old chestnut trees in the park of the Military Academy in Wiener-Neustadt reading a book.
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