While visiting the lovely town of Duino on the Adriatic coast, Michael Ampersant provoked the wraith of the legendary German poet Rainer Maria Rilke by applying Google-translate to the wordsmith's "Duineser Elegien" (Elegies from the Castle of Duino). Now he spends the summer in Switzerland, in a chalet only three kilometers away from the grave of the poet. Will Michael be stupid enough to challenge Rilke again, thus unleashing the most sophisticated...