Note 3

Posted by admin on September 13th, 2008 filed in Notes

Interestingly Wohl always stored his books with their spines to the wall claiming that it made for more adventurous reading, and just as you should never read the title of a painting before looking at the painting itself, book titles should always be placed on the last page of the book, ‘where they do least damage’. He was once caught carefully removing the titles of pictures from gallery walls in a public museum in Munich. After a brief but polite protest he was ejected from the building. Two weeks later he was caught in the same gallery in the act of sticking back the titles he had removed on top of titles that were already on the walls. Needless to say he was carefully replacing the correct titles with incorrect ones. Brought before a local magistrate and amidst much laughter Wohl said quietly he had been performing a public service for which he intended making no charge. The good-humoured magistrate let him off with only a warning.