Hermann V. Gilm: Sein Leben Und Seine Dichtungen (1889)

Upon returning home two years after leaving, 20-year-old Victor McLeod’s life is shattered. He is allowed to think that all is well with love–a conspiracy orchestrated by a close family member. Traveling by car from the airport with his soul, mind, and body tingling with joyous excitement, he sits next to his love. But, arriving home, he is met with a mind-numbing question. He returns to New York City to focus solely on his studies. Two years later, in the Nittany Mountains, attending graduate school, love–like the Nittany lion–ambushes the unwary Victor, who waxes poetically: Forever never to yield, the banners of my heart to wield, I am in love, and love conquers all. But on a beautiful spring day after uttering this refrain, he suddenly finds himself under the Nittany Mountains.