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''Sartor Resartus'', published in text. ''Sartor Resartus'' was initially considered by some bizarre and incomprehensible, but had a limited success in America, where it was admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson , influencing the development of New England Transcendentalism . CHARACTERS AND LOCALES ;Blumine: The siren that Calypsowise seduced Teufelsdroeckh at the commencement of his career, but who opened his eyes to see that it is not in sentiment, however fine, that the soul's cravings can find satisfaction. ;Dumbdrudge:Dumbdrudge is an imaginary village where the natives toil and ''drudge'' away and ''say nothing'' about it, as villagers all over the world used contentedly to do, and did for most part, at the time ''Sartor'' was written, though less so now. ;Hofrath Heuschrecke:Hofrath Heuschrecke (i. e. State-Councillor Grasshopper) is a loose, zigzag figure, a mend and blind admirer of Teufelsdroeckh's, an incarnation of distraction distracted, and all the counsellor the "editor" had to advise him and encourage him in his work; a victim to "timidity" and preyed on by an uncomfortable sense of mere "physical cold," such as the majority of the State counsellors of the day were. ;Weissnichtwo:In the book, Weissnichtwo (Know-not-where) is an imaginary European city, viewed as the focus, and as exhibiting the operation, of all the influences for good and evil of the time, described in terms which characterised city life in the first quarter of the 19th Century ; so universal appeared the spiritual forces at work in society at that time that it was impossible to say where they were and where they were not, and hence the name of the city, Know-not-where. its also hard to understand! TRIVIA
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