Further in Germany: only there is high culture so without place: even the novels of personal experience tend not to identify the place (the sorrows of werther take place at WHICH school?) but the feelings, in the hopes of making contact in the abstract, with the thought that "if I show you an orderly thing, you'll approve because it's orderly, regardless of content." (And, perhaps, part of the reason my great-grandfather ran away from Bremen in the first place.)
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Further in Germany: only there is high culture so without place: even the novels of personal experience tend not to identify the place (the sorrows of werther take place at WHICH school?) but the feelings, in the hopes of making contact in the abstract, with the thought that "if I show you an orderly thing, you'll approve because it's orderly, regardless of content." (And, perhaps, part of the reason my great-grandfather ran away from Bremen in the first place.)