Notes

The notes are the translator’s. Each is marked in the text with a dagger and a roman numeral.

1. †I Kohl is cabbage, and the surname Kohl is the same word; Kohl is also colloquial for idle or nonsensical talk (Deutsches Wörterbuch, s.v. Kohl, sense 9: “von unklarem, langweiligem geschwätz”; Kohl reden). The brother’s fader Kohl is “stale nonsense.”