Discussing "Motley Stones" By Adalbert Stifter
In this episode of Canonball we discuss "Motley Stones," which was written by Adalbert Stifter and published in 1853.
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00:00 Adalbert Stifter's Life And Writing
05:03 New York Review Of Books Edition And Translation
09:50 Beginning Of Passages From "Motley Stones" – Stifter's Philosophy And View Of His Art
19:29 Earth, Water, Wind, And Fire
21:23 A Daniel Defoe Connection
23:41 Societal Collapse In A 19th-Century German Village
26:15 The Big And The Small – Thunderstorms
28:28 The Basis And The Beginning Of All The Sciences
30:28 Courtship, Social Norms, And An Eerie Scene
34:06 "There Were No Tales To Tell About Him"
35:51 The Hidden History Of Your Neighborhood
37:29 Christmas – Similarities And Differences
43:44 The Soil In Which We Grow
45:39 A Description Of The Night Sky
47:40 German Folklore – Forests And Gnomes
50:28 Castles, The Fatherland, And Nobility
54:18 Closing