Historical dream account · English · machine translation
A Book for Two Baskets of Snakes
Friedrich Hebbel
Das Buch der Träume (1927) · Das Buch der Träume, original1927 anthology, numbered account299, printed page164
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Munich, August 12, 1837. During the night in a dream I sat in an inn in the Au, eating a midday meal. Beside me lay Jacobi’s Woldemar; opposite me sat a traveller who was also dining and asked which book I was reading. I handed him the volume; without further ado he put it in his pocket and presented me with two baskets, in the larger of which lay a splendid boa, coiled up and enclosing a smaller snake with its long body.
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Ein Buch gegen zwei Schlangenkörbe
München, 12. August 1837. Über Nacht im Traum saß ich in einem Wirtshaus der Au und nahm ein Mittagsmahl ein. Neben mir lag der „Woldemar“ von Jacobi, mir gegenüber saß ein Reisender, der ebenfalls dinierte und mich fragte, welches Buch ich läse. Ich reichte ihm den Band hin, er steckte ihn ohne weiteres in die Tasche und verehrte mir zwei Körbe, in deren größtem eine treffliche Boaschlange, zusammengeringelt und mit ihrem langen Körper eine kleinere Schlange einschließend, lag.
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Friedrich Hebbel, account reproduced in Ignaz Ježower (compiler), Das Buch der Träume (Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, copyright1927), numbered account299, p.164. Original German; editorial title added.
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