A good place for the towers might be on the mountain of Kobeshugel, not far from Karlsbad. On September 11, 1819 while walking there, Goethe wrote the following observations in his meteorological diary:
It was September 11 when, climbing the road in the direction of Fischern and veering right onto the footpath, I found myself on the Kobelshugel, from where I had a clear view of the sky all around. It was there, that something in the east caught my attention. Across the perfect blue vault of a calm sky, carried on a mild eastern breeze, a few isolated cloud patches – some no more than little puffs, others amassed in larger formations – were moving westwards. Expanding in an upwards direction one of these, as though suddenly riven by a broom, began to fragment into airy streaks through which the blue of the sky was dimly visible. Then, following several loud thunderclaps, the cloud streaks dissolved almost imperceptibly into a light rain. It was at that moment that I saw a rainbow, not only where the cloud had been just before, but also, strangely enough, in the lower part of the sky, which had again turned limpid and serene. All through dusk, an oddly shaped mass of wispy cloud, of a color one normally sees only in Italy, was passing overhead. Meanwhile, back towards the east, another enormous mountain of cloud had formed. Through a thin veil of mist that was heading south, Jupiter appeared in all its splendor. The cloud mass which had accumulated in the east began to disperse amid flickerings of lightning and by 8 o’clock the sky was completely serene.
The following two days produced similar phenomena, though less significant and not so closely observed. Suffice it to say that the sky, completely overcast by day, was by 8 pm limpid and clear. And so on the 14th and 15th the air having by now completely cleared, the whole sky was of a most wonderful blue, without trace of cloud, from morning to night.
This fragment was the inspiration for a short film called WOLKENGESTALT, which can be viewed at the Collectif Jeune Cinéma website: http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/fiche.php?film=257
Submitted for Twin Towers Go Global by Pedro Lasch & collaborators
