A story titled for this action ends by avowing, “We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What action titles a novella that is by far the longest piece in Robert Walser’s Selected Stories? This action titles Carl Seelig’s memoir of Walser’s time in the Waldau sanatorium.
ANSWER: walking [accept rambling, strolling, wandering, hiking, or word forms of any; accept Walks with Walser, Wanderungen mit Robert Walser, “The Walk,” “A Little Ramble,” or Der Spaziergang; prompt on other synonyms; reject “running”]
[10e] Walser’s walks are detailed in a Susan Bernofsky biography titled in part for this adjective, which names Walser’s late career “scripts.” A girl with this quality is the subject of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina.”
ANSWER: small [or little, tiny, micro, diminutive, klein, or word forms or equivalents; accept microscripts; accept Clairvoyant of the Small]
[10m] In Montano’s Malady, Enrique Vila-Matas imagined the “eternal walker” Walser meeting this other writer. This author of Three Women wrote a three-volume novel about Ulrich set during the decline of Austria-Hungary.
ANSWER: Robert Musil (The novel is The Man Without Qualities.)
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