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my dear man, she says, you'll erase yourself if you erase anything more from the manuscript, you'll delete yourself, wipe yourself out, altogether, over the years you've quite consistently erased yourself out of your manuscript, you've erased yourself to death, simply erased yourself to death...
— Nov 11, 2022 07:20AM
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everybody's poised above the abyss: but some people are always managing to shove the others over the edge: you can't postpone your being shoved over until you've finished living, that isn't permitted, that would be a lie, that would be impertinent, that would be idiotic,
it's always the abyss that keeps us all alive, only the abyss...
— Nov 17, 2022 03:10PM
it's always the abyss that keeps us all alive, only the abyss...
S̶e̶a̶n̶
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Sunday mornings: stony calm, rent by the screaming of crows, pervasive stench from the pissoirs, seeping through the sky, seeping through the poetry of the alleyways, streets, and squares...
— Nov 16, 2022 02:27PM
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In the afternoon my fatigue rapidly gets the better of me, reaching its high point in the evening, the fatigue that comes from looking at people, from looking at commotion: people, the world, there's always commotion: the torment of commotion: once darkness falls and my fatigue lessens, the fatigue goes away: those who don't see anything don't get tired...
— Nov 14, 2022 03:13PM
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I focus on the distance, I always have the distance and the highest heights in view, but what is close by will destroy me, the depth will obliterate me,
a victim of the infinite distances, a victim of what is infinitely close at hand...
— Nov 06, 2022 07:40AM
a victim of the infinite distances, a victim of what is infinitely close at hand...
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Nov 11, 2022 12:25PM
As a devotee kneeling at the shrine of Bernhard, how have I never heard of this one? Is this a newer publication?
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It was actually his first prose work, but the last of his prose to be published. It's been available in English for years now, but I think the nature of the writing is such that it's remained in an obscure corner of his oeuvre.
Well that makes me feel a little better. Thanks, for putting it on my radar, Sean.
