I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as 'bad heart' always to him refer,And 'cancer of the pancreas' to her.
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Zum Autor"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."
"Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight."
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for."