Bremer Freiheit Page #3

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with legs I sleep, Mother.

What you say does not

concern me.

I have my will, Mother,

which I'm aware of and know

how to carry through.

How can I help it if you

gave up your life

for things which are not

your own?

Sin is written upon

your face.

What you just said would come

under heresy in Court.

Sit down with me.

I'll lay my head

in you lap

and I'll be your little child

of earlier days.

Come, Mother, please.

Look, Mother,

you do want

your little girl to be happy,

don't you?

Oh, Geesche, you know

very well,

fortune only comes from God.

Only who keeps the commandments

He gave us will be happy.

The fortune of this world

is in the way of the fortune

of eternity.

But I'm living now.

Who gives man a guarantee

for life after death.

You have already been taken

over by bad spirits.

Whoever is godless is not

worth a quarrel.

I have coffee. I'll give

you a cap.

My child must be godless,

my child?

With what kind of sin did I

deserve this?

I feel dizzy.

I'll go home to cry.

I'll speak to God

that he does not act too

severely against the child

that slandered Him.

World goodbye - I'm tired of you,

I want to go heavenwards,

there will be real

peace and

eternal tranquillity of mind.

Quiet! I've had enough of

this. Quiet!

Your father can do this. Listen.

On the second of this month

my beloved wife.

Geesche Margarethe Timm,

ne Schfers,

ended her life in consequence

of an inner inflammation. Quiet!

But it's true, damn it!

Under a manifold change of

fortune I spent

32 years in the happiest unity

of a satisfied

marriage, which was blessed

with two children.

The pain over her loss is

as inconsolable as it is

irreplaceable for this life.

Only the faith of providence

for a better life

can make the rest of my days

worth while, which I shall

devote to

my children and grandchildren.

Bremen, Johann Timm. Splendid.

This, Geesche, will increase

the business.

Can you picture Mother's

life, Michael?

No?

Father writes:

''in happiest unity of a

satisfied marriage''.

That was not fortune that

Mother had all life long.

The fortune Mother meant

lies in heaven,

for here on earth she was

Father's domestic animal,

she had to do

what she was told,

here the freedom which

she had was

her discourse with God.

That is what is called a

satisfied marriage.

Because here was a being that

never had a mind of its own,

that knew his wishes by the

look on his face.

that he could love or beat

according to his will.

That was convenient

for Father,

that's what he now calls loss.

That was no life, Michael,

which Mother led,

for such a person

death is a fortune.

Coffee and bread...

You think too much

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