Of course, we have been told that the castle now lies in ruins, so the fact that the beggarwoman is lying on a bed of straw on the floor may not be altogether a good thing. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The Marquise is said to assist the beggarwoman out of pity; the Marquis is described as oddly horrified when he hears the story about a ghost, although he does not understand why — but rather than rounding out the representation of a situation, these points serve to give us the impression that we are being provided with just enough information to facilitate the most formal of links between sentences. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The beggarwoman slips when she rises up, and the same phrase describes the way in which a rumor rises up among the servants that there is something strange afoot in the bedroom. ❋ Unknown (2005)
If the point, however, is that nobody in this story can stay in bed, this may be because the Marquis's initial order to the beggarwoman was only made because he happened to walk into the room by "chance" (Zufall). ❋ Unknown (2005)
Immediately following the statement that the beggarwoman sank down and died, the narrative jumps forward several years. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The beggarwoman slides — sie glitscht — but the fall never becomes the kind of glitch in a system that could be corrected or expelled as something foreign. ❋ Unknown (2005)
At the outset, we are informed that the Marquis just happened to walk in on the beggarwoman, but the detail is immediately mitigated by the further qualification that this was the room in which he usually kept his guns, as if it was only "somewhat" accidental that he went there after having been hunting. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A prospective buyer, a knight, is invited to spend the night in the very room where years before the beggarwoman had fallen, although nobody seems to recall anything about the incident. ❋ Unknown (2005)
If his legacy remains, like that of the beggarwoman, tenuous, it is because he offers us a lesson about the inability of our allegories of intellectual history to account for the linguistic structure of the events they strive to depict. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In the final sentence of the story, the Marquis's bones are said to lie "in that corner of the room from which he once ordered the beggarwoman of Locarno to stand up" ❋ Unknown (2005)
Pursuing the play of letters by which a beggarwoman (Bettelweib) comes begging (bettelnd) and is given a bed ❋ Unknown (2005)
Like the beggarwoman, the Marquis's command slips as he tries to keep her begging out of sight. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The beggarwoman happens to fall because he happens to drop by. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In vain, she sent people in to rescue the wretched man; he had already found his end in the most dreadful manner possible; and his white bones, gathered together by his people, still lie in that corner of the room from which he once ordered the beggarwoman of Locarno to stand up. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Having tried to lie down in the room in which the beggarwoman was once to be tucked away, the would-be buyer pleads to be allowed to spend the night elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Kleist's twenty-sentence novella would therefore be an allegory of events, a tale in which no occurrence — the slip of the beggarwoman, the death of the Marquis — can be understood by situating it within a deterministic logic that would purport to explain what it means by referring it to something else. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Just as the ghost echoes the demise of the beggarwoman, retracing her journey across the room, so almost every other detail turns out to have a prior verbal analogue, as if even a text this short could do little more than re-quote itself. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Kleist writes that the beggarwoman slipped "da sie sich erhob" — meaning either "as she rose up" or "because she rose up" — heightening our sense that even the most precise exposition of the text's language cannot provide us with a clear causal chain. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The beggarmen had waited in their places to give us another chance of meriting heaven; and at the church door still crouched the old beggarwoman. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now, at my words and at the touch of my coin this old beggarwoman smiled beneficently and said, “Go with God,” or, as she put it in her Spanish, “Vaya vested con Dios.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
