Talk:Robert Musil

message: I added this tag because the article in its current form seems to be awkwardly written and some of the details may be suspect. I'm not sufficently familiar with Musil's life or have access to significant sources to do this myself. Philip Cross 20:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I am happy to clean up this article, and to add appropriate references to Musil's relationship to Robert Walser, whom he revered (and reviewed). I am, however, new at this and before I make any more changes I have a basic question about a minor edit I just made:
I added Robert Walser to the list of names under Trivia. This links to Robert Walser (disambiguation) instead of directly to the Swiss modernist writer. Is there a way to fix this?
:By "piping" (|) between the linked article name and the text appropriate to the source article. I've fixed the immediate problem. By the way, it is usual on Wikipedia to use four tildes (~) to sign contributions to talk pages. Philip Cross 19:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walser and Musil 

message: There is a sentence here that I don't quite understand.
:Even before this, in 1905, Musil had met Martha Marcovaldi (January 21, 1874 - November 6, 1880) who was in subsequent years to become his wife.
What is the purpose and meaning of the date (my underlining here)? --Aethralis 21:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The second date has been changed in the current version of the article.  It now appears to be her birth and death dates.  RJFJR (talk) 16:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date? 

message: "Cool, proud, uncommunicative, cold, harsh in his judgement, sharp, a military tone of speaking, vain, elegant, polite, well dressed, distant, official, impeccable, an impressive personality though not a sympathetic or congenial one, proud of his time as officer during the First World War, inaccessible, felt unrecognized, kept people far from him and hence fell into isolation, made slighting rather than positive remarks."
Did Frisé "index" this laundry list in Plädoyer für Robert Musil? 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/New/bio.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.84.35.181 (talk) 12:04, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  trivia section 

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message: it says: "During this time he began work on Young Törless and invented the device "Musil'scher Farbkreisel", chromatometer that resolves all the colours of the spectrum into whiteness."
First, this is taken from http://www.virtualvienna.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=299 I don't know who is quoting whom.
Second, it's nonsense scientifically. see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musilscher_Farbkreisel Google translation of that page says: "Musil shear color top The Musilsche color or variation roundabout is a simple tool for continuous, continuous production of mixed colors by additive color mixing with a rotating two-tone circle."
I will change offending sentence. Maybe someone else can do better GangofOne (talk) 22:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musil'scher Farbkreisel 

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thread_title:  External links modified