The two young people in the loft, Calypso and Jonathan, each have their own rich stories to tell, too.Ģ. Some of the writing here is cryptic, I should say opaque, such as the early musings of Miss Nat-og-Dag, "a maiden lady of great wealth." The old Cardinal, Hamilcar von Sehestedt, a favorite of the pope in his youth, is loaded with wisdom of an all too undoctrinal nature. Will they survive until morning when a boat is expected to rescue them? It is in this context that everyone's convoluted history is revealed. Eventually we find ourselves with four characters in the loft of a farmhouse where they must await rescue with the water ever rising. A once in a hundred years storm occurs which requires the evacuation of the spa and surrounding farmsteads. It is set in the 1830s at a resort island off the northern coast of Germany, Norderney. The first story, "The Deluge at Norderney," proceeds largely by way of monologues.
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