Dear Nathaniel, Thank you very much for your invitation to go with you on the round trip to Dartmouth. I would like to make a trip with you on which: a) we might speak only German and/or b) I could read to you and we could discuss German prose or poetry, such as 1) Goethe's Faust, Iphigenie,Wahlverwandtschaften,West-östlicher Divan etc.or 2) Hölderlin's Odes, Elegy, Hymns etc and/or 3) Rilke and/or 4) Hofmannsthal, and/or 5) Schiller, Lessing, Heine .... 6) the Bible or the "New Testament" (German or English) 5) my own prose and or poetry c) discuss in English any topic in philosophy, musicology or music history for which I could make adequate preparation Such a trip should be agreed upon a few days in advance. If you're interested, please ask me again. Jochen