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It is 1955. The Merz family apartment in Vienna has been abandoned
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START: ROSAThe first time I came back after the war鈥擩anuary 鈥�46鈥擨 was so excited to see that Demel was still there I went in and ordered coffee and cake. The waiter said, 鈥榃e have no coffee and no cakes.鈥� 鈥極h. What have you got, then?鈥� 鈥楥amomile tea.鈥� So I had camomile tea.
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END: But it turned out America never filled the quota. It let in ten thousand fewer Jewish refugees than the quota.
Nathan barks a laugh.
NATHANIf you don鈥檛 think that鈥檚 funny, you鈥檙e not close enough.
But his laughter is overtaken by his agony. He starts to howl. Leo doesn鈥檛 know how to respond. Rosa, smoking, watches Nathan dispassionately.
ROSARight. I鈥檓 a Viennese Freudian analyst in New York with an office on the Upper East Side, I should complain?
Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt. Grove Press, 2020.
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