Business and packing, Architect Schulz and the Macedonian over for dinner, R. gives them a rendezvous at Angermann’s, and he returns home late in cheerful mood: “The worst company makes you feel—and conversely, the best company makes you feel—that you are not a man among men”.
[1] “The worst company makes you feel / That you are a man among men,” Mephisto in the study scene of Faust I, by Goethe.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.