Theodor Fontane: John Maynard

John Maynard is one of Theodor Fontane’s most famous ballads, published in 1886. It praises John Maynard, helmsman of a passenger ship on Lake Erie. A fire breaks out at the end of a passage from Detroit to Buffalo.

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Adventure in space and time (Part 1)

Something is up! My sensitive whiskers have made me sense a tremor in the continuum of time. Somewhere on the 60th parallel there was a rift in space and time. So I set off on a dangerous expedition into unknown regions until the sextant points to 60° North.

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