Chapter 12 Heading

"[Joh Fredersen's mother] opposed her son and the work of her son. But he did not let her alone; he forced her to him. When she angrily vowed she wished to live in her house--under the thatched roof, with its vault, the walnut tree--until her dying day, he transplanted house and tree and gaily blossoming garden to the flat roof of the stone house-giant which lay between the cathedral and New Tower of Babel."

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