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The Unpaid Telescope
Johann Benjamin Erhard
Das Buch der Träume (1927) · Das Buch der Träume, original1927 anthology, numbered account193, printed page105
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I dreamed I had ordered a telescope and a microscope from an instrument maker in Nuremberg, and when he brought them I could not pay him, which, by his account, put him in extremely great difficulty.
And on waking I needed the most exact recollection of everything I had done in Nuremberg for a year in order to convince myself it was a dream. But even then it was not settled; for half a year I was often troubled by the thought that the matter might be true after all, and had to convince myself anew of its conditional impossibility.
Original diary heading/group: 1798
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Das unbezahlte Teleskop
Es träumte mir, ich hätte bei einem Mechanikus in Nürnberg ein Teleskop und ein Mikroskop bestellt, und als mir es dieser brachte, so konnte ich es ihm nicht bezahlen, worüber dieser, nach seiner Schilderung, in äußerst große Verlegenheit kam.
Und beim Erwachen war mir die genauste Rückerinnerung von allem, was ich seit einem Jahre in Nürnberg getan hatte, nötig, um mich zu überzeugen, daß es ein Traum war. Aber noch war es damit nicht abgemacht, ein halbes Jahr lang ängstigte mich öfters der Gedanke, daß die Sache doch wahr sein könnte, und ich mußte mich von neuem von ihrer bedingten Unmöglichkeit überzeugen.
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A historical recollection reproduced in Ignaz Ježower’s original German anthology. Editorial title and navigation themes are added; source wording is preserved. This is not a modern Synastry community submission.
Johann Benjamin Erhard, account reproduced in Ignaz Ježower (compiler), Das Buch der Träume (Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, copyright1927), numbered account193, p.105. Original German; editorial title added.
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Das Buch der Träume, original1927 anthology, numbered account193, printed page105
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The preceding autobiographical context identifies Ansbach in 1798. Only the complete numbered dream and its immediate recall account are transcribed; childhood reminiscence is excluded.
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