{"id":2435,"date":"2026-04-23T07:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:36:17","slug":"the-averted-reddened-eyes-of-a-young-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/23\/the-averted-reddened-eyes-of-a-young-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Averted Reddened Eyes of a Young Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Die abgewendeten rotgeweinten Augen einer Jungen Frau, die reist allein von Verona nach M\u00fcnchen \u00fcber Innsbruck<br \/>\n&#8211; Fritz Tegler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you want to know, in any sense, another, an Other, any other person, first observe them discretely. Best to do this indirectly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this sad era, the most<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>effective means of so doing has become increasingly rare. Now trains are not only faster, which reduces total observation time, but open-plan carriages have largely replaced compartmented ones.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only on a few train lines leading from certain countries can one still find these mobile glass boxes, which, even when almost empty, are full of reflected images, reflections in general.<\/p>\n<p>To wit: against a landscape of snow-covered mountains passing by outside, itself already translucent, one&#8217;s own distorted gaze on the smeared window glass and, through and behind, the averted, reddened eyes of a young woman traveling alone from Verona to Munich via Innsbruck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die abgewendeten rotgeweinten Augen einer Jungen Frau, die reist allein von Verona nach M\u00fcnchen \u00fcber Innsbruck &#8211; Fritz Tegler If you want to know, in any sense, another, an Other, any other person, first observe them discretely. Best to do this indirectly.\u00a0 In this sad era, the most\u00a0 effective means of so doing has become &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/23\/the-averted-reddened-eyes-of-a-young-woman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Averted Reddened Eyes of a Young Woman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-post","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}