Sammendrag av Hyperion på Part 2, Chapter 7

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1. Letters from the Baron’s sister prompt him to invite Flemming on a journey to Ems.
2. They travel along the Bergstrasse and stop overnight at a mill in the Valley of Birkenau.
3. Beside the stream, they discuss how landscape, solitude, and passing feelings shape German songs.
4. In Frankfort, they hear Don Giovanni and admire a ballet dancer while laughing at a disapproving spectator.
5. The Baron asks to remain after the performance so they can experience the deserted theater’s strange atmosphere.
6. They overhear a man discussing his dancer wife’s engagements in terms Flemming initially mistakes for talk about a horse.

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The correction ends the chapter by contrasting the dancer’s enchanting performance with her husband’s businesslike treatment of her.

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