While Farmer Bart Brassica, always curiously inconsistent, eschews literature per se, he says he is an ardent admirer of Rainer Rilke and the Duino Elegies, though he has not got as far as actually reading the Elegies, but has proffered this photo to Mavis Eggwhistle as evidence that his mysterious absence was due to waiting outside Chatueau de Muzat, where Rilke finished the Elegies, to see if the location would afford him a similiar ‘boundless storm and hurricane of spirit..”.   Mavis is skeptical, and has asked Bart to explain why the Chateau and surrounds are black and white. Bart’s excuse that  he is colour blind and therefore this can’t be true, leaves Mavis vexed but as Bart has googled this and found it to be true she has given up.