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Robert Walser

[p. 65] Apparently not a cloud was to be seen up there, or one might just as well say down there. I remember staying in that region for three months, or perhaps only two weeks, or might it have been a stay of three weeks? My excellent memory declines to supply the information, but not to announce to you, with what amounts to certainty, that, yes, there it appeared impossible for nature not to show a man a cloudless countenance, and her rivers and her rocks shone like an inviting, affectionate smile.

– Robert Walser
“Apparently not a cloud was to be seen”
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 (Univ. of Neb. Press; $15)

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