Rush - Alien Shore

Subsequently, in the 1830s, she became a famous writer, Bettina von Arnim. One could succumb to the charm of her fiction style and quote extensive fragments from the book “Goethe's Correspondence with a Child” or from the novel “Ilius Pamphilius and Ambrosia,” where entire pages are devoted to describing meetings and conversations with Beethoven. But if you compare Bettina’s writing with documents and testimonies of other people who are not prone to fantasy, it soon becomes clear that her texts are more artistic than memoirs.