Hyperion, Chapter 3: samenvatting

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1. Continuing his December journey, Flemming stops at Capellen and climbs to Stolzenfels as snow falls.
2. The personified ruin compares human life to the Rhine and warns against imagination’s deceptions.
3. Its tale describes an archbishop who wastes resources on alchemy and dies without wealth or children.
4. Flemming accepts the warning, and the narrator compares his early manhood to a bronze statue.
5. The narrator describes how imagination enriches Flemming’s life, while grief keeps him absorbed in happier memories.
6. Flemming follows impulses and disturbs his own principles, but retains kindness, feeling, and common sense.

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