Status Updates From Призрак Александра Вольфа

“Without knowledge of death, we would be unable to appreciate the true value of our finest feelings, we would be unable to know that some of them are never to be repeated and that we can only understand them in all their richness at the moment they occur. Until that point we aren’t destined to do so, and afterwards it’s too late.”

“The most natural thing to do would have been for me to say to her: ‘My dear, you aren’t mistaken in thinking that this conversation bears no relation at all to what I’m feeling now, or to what you, too, are probably feeling. And you know the words I should be saying right now just as well as I do.’”

hm. kann mich bisher nicht begeistern. langweilig, ausschweifend, als hätte der autor adhs und verliert ständig den faden und erzählt noch ne sidestory. hoffe es wird noch richtig komplex

“Of all my memories, of all my life’s innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed. Ever since the moment it happened, I cannot remember one day passing when I haven’t regretted it.”

Was für eine Sprache. Atemlos, wie in einem Traum, fast hypnotisierend.
I am flashed.

"[...] alles, was ich so gut und so lange kannte, alles hatte jetzt einen neuen, bisher nicht existenten Sinn bekommen [...]" (S. 78) - aaahh mhm aha ich beginne, Verknüpfungen zu machen

LITERAT-Buchbeprechung am 25.02.!

Ach ja, da ist diese Frau...

Had Wolf never existed, it would have remained in the realms of my imagination, and I could have sustained the comforting illusion that all this was simply the result of fantasy and that, if it were to happen in reality, I would find sufficient inner strength to refrain from that final, irreversible act.

"I'm unreasonably attracted to this woman, so let's interpret some aspect of her face as a sign of her inherent mental instability." Classic.

'[E]ven then one may infer something odd about an equal, unfaultering love for such differing things as Baudelaire's poetry and a brutal punch-up with some thug." Dude doesn't even know about Mishima. Sucks for him.