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The book delves into the characteristics of serpentine, a mineral known for its hydrous magnesium silicate composition and typically dull green color, often resembling a serpent's skin. It explores its variations, including the presence of iron that can impart red or brown hues, and highlights the significance of precious serpentine, which is translucent and rich in oil-green color. Additionally, the text discusses its formation through the alteration of other magnesian minerals, emphasizing its prevalence in large masses.

The work features Christopher Middleton's introspective 'Nocturnal Journal,' penned in the two years before his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin. Accompanying the journal are insightful conversations with Marius Kociejowski, recorded in London, which delve into Middleton's thoughts and experiences. This collection highlights Middleton's poetic reflections and offers a unique glimpse into his creative process and literary insights, bridging his life in the USA with his British roots.

Published in 1908, the novel is a notebook, a boy?s impressions of life at the school for servants run by the brother and sister Benjamenta. The lesson of the school is humility and the rejection of power and ambition. It is a lesson that the narrator, Jakob von Gunten, learns well. From his vantage point, he is able to see through the absurd posturings of his fellow students. Like his creation Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser understood of the attractions of infinitesimal smallness and kept well away from the corruptions and temptations of literary life. An outsider who spent his last twenty-seven years in an asylum, Walser was a writer?s writer whose work was much admired by Kafka, Hesse and Mann. His voice appeals to all those who savour silence in an epoch of deafening noise. Now a major feature film directed by the Quay Brothers, Institute Benjamenta is Walser?s masterpiece. Ninety years after its first publication, this edition offers the chance to read a truly extraordinary classic.

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