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And finally the château in Morges on Lake Geneva,where he had died.(..) The collection of hundreds of diaphanous Chinese teacups he'd amassed over decades,like Chatwin's Kaspar Utz, who suffered from that incurable porcelain sickness.But why all this?I knew from the moment I guessed what it was all worth (..)that my childwood and youth were permeated by arrogance and hyperbole and fraud and degradation,by dead money.
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She's always told me, my mother, that she could no longer swim in the Lake Zurich, even since Margie J, her best friend, had employed the Swiss company Exit for her suicide and decreed that her ashes then be strewn over the clear, pleasant waters of the lake. My mother had said she'd swallow a bit of lake water by accident while swimming, and then she'd be drinking Margie and that was a ghastly notion to her.
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People visiting Zurich tended to think that the spirit of Joyce or of Cabaret Voltaire would waft about them, but in reality, ir was merely a city of moneygrubbing middle management and depressing hustlers and reserve liutenants.
— Feb 23, 2026 09:26AM
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"Doença da porcelana" parece-me o termo médico apropriado para o Utz. Devia ter nascido quando o acto de agitar uma leiteira frente ao nariz de um monarca ainda era uma boa arma de destruição em massa, em vez de um símbolo de decadência... Azar também o desse narrador. Se agora for alguma coisa dele, é vender ;D
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Quem conhece o Utz nunca mais o esquece.O betinho está só a elencar para ilustrar a decadência dos pais e dos amigos. :-)
