See page 100 of Austilat’s book — A TRAMP IN BERLIN. I don’t have a copy at hand but amazon has a preview with quotes about the Berlin Rohrpost system. Perhaps Austilat references the sources of the quotes from that essay in his bibliography. Barb On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, Wolfgang Hochbruck < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > I would have surmised it was included in Andreas Austilat's 2013 > edition _A Tramp in Berlin_, but not only is the essay itself not > there, i can't even find a mention of it in the volume. > > best > w > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:21:04 -0800 > Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >I recently came across a reference to an essay by Mark Twain entitled > >"Postal Service". This was in a series of essays written by David > >Graeber included in a book entitled "The Utopia of Rules". He > >remarked "Mark Twain, who lived briefly in Berlin between 1891 and > >1892, was so taken with it that he composed one of his only known > >non-satirical essays, entitled “Postal Service,” just to celebrate its > >wondrous efficiency.". This was in reference to the German postal > >system. I have been unable to locate this essay by Twain. > > > >I'm casting about for interesting bits about Twain's dealing with > >bureaucracies. I know there are far too many of them to deal with > >this comprehensively but I do hope to catch the flavor. > > > Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck > Dept. of English > Centre for Security and Society > Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg > Rempart St. 15 > D-79098 Freiburg > Germany >