At times the state of being fettered and bound to a particular place could be warmer and richer, more filled with tender secrets, which left all the world's doors and windows standing wide open. In freedom's bright spaces, people often found themselves beset by bitter cold or oppressive heat; but as for this other sort of freedom that he, Joseph, was thinking of -- well, goodness, freedom of this sort was, in the end, the most fitting and loveliest sort, possessed of an undying magic.
Robert Walser
The Assistant
