Without Lifting A Finger

This little snippet is enough, I suppose, to represent Jacobsen today:    Mogens stayed another week. The arrangement was that the wedding was to take place in midsummer. Then he left, and winter came with dark days, long nights, and a snowstorm of letters.

Finished with Wolf's City of Angels (this one, more than some of her others, pulled me right in -- but then the LA/Santa Monica/Thomas Mann connection could hardly have disappointed me) and have started rereading Mogens and Other Stories (I'm reading almost exclusively via my Kindle reader on my phone right now -- very convenient for school and the coffee shop) by the great Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (I discovered him long ago via Rilke). *   From Wikimedia Commons    Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist , poet , and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" and pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough . Biography Jacobsen was born in Thisted in Jutland , the eldest of the five children of a prosperous merchant. He went to school in Copenhagen and was a student at the University of C...