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1	1973	Wilder, Thornton. Theophilus North. (New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1973). [Seitenangaben aus The Library of America (2011)]. "The FIRST, the earliest, made its appearance during my twelfth to my fourteenth years. I record it with shame. I resolved to become a saint. I saw myself as a missionary among primitive peoples. I had never met a saint but I had read and heard a great deal about them. I was attending a school in North China and the parents of all my fellow-students (and my teachers in their way) were missionaries. My fist shock came when I became aware that (perhaps covertly) they regarded the Chinese as a primitive people. I knew better than that..." "Mr. Wyckoff used to be away six and eight months at a time. He was a collector. What was it, Mrs. Cranston – sharks' teeth ? Shells and Chinese things, Chief. He left them to that big museum in New York." "I went to German schools in China when I was a boy and have kept up my interest in it ever since." "There was a row of china cupboards, faced with glass and lined with silk." "They'll order a van and get out of there Saturday morning or I'm a Chinaman." "Yes… and I tell them the things you've told me. About the school you went to in China." "I had noticed that bamboo chairs with wide armrests, such as I had known in China as a boy, were placed, two by two, at intervals on the lawn." "Mr. Noth, tell us some more about China !" "Now I am going to talk to you in Chinese for a moment. You remember that I was brought up in China. I shall give you the translation too. 'Ee er san' – with a downward, then upward glide - 'see. Gee-den-gaw' – with a rising inflection. 'Hu' (a descending note) 'li too bay. Nu chi fo n' yu' and so on. The first seven words are all the Chinese I know. They mean : 'one, two, three, four, chicken – egg - cake'." "I spared them nothing – Wisconsin, China, California, Oberlin College, Yale, the American Academy in Rome, the school in New Jersey, then Newport." "I had spent a part of my childhood in China and was no stranger to the unfathomable misery in the world." "You will see sights and smell smells that will distress you, but you have told us of your experiences in China and you are prepared for such things." "I try to live with as few possessions as possible. Like the Chinese a bowl of rice… like the ancient Greeks a few figs and olives."	Person: Wilder, Thornton

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1		Zentralbibliothek Zürich	Organisation / ZB