Alma decided she had to get out of the 'disastrous house' on the Hohe Warte.... Werfel had never found the grandeur of it comfortable and had often escaped elsewhere to write. They decided to rent it out. After packing up 10,000 books and 5,000 sheets of music, their paintings and furniture--'in reality junk for eternity, and baggage during everyday life'--she threw a party...[citing Alma's diary entry for June 15, 1937]
-Cate Haste
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