Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday:
Thomas Bernhard day (unofficial)
Not in Austria
NO!
Not in Austria
Travel:
And so for my work—everyone has his needs—it is supremely important to be in a country whose language I do not understand, because I always have the sensation that people are saying only pleasant things and speaking only of important, philosophical things. Whereas when you’re at home and understand the language, you feel that people are saying only absolute nonsense, no? Thus the nonsense, in Spanish, becomes philosophical for me.
—Interview, 1981
We must take care to turn this world, which was a given world but not made for us or ready for us, a world which is all set in any case, because it was made by our predecessors, to attack us and ruin us and finally destroy us, nothing else, we must turn it into a world to suit our own ideas, acting first behind the scenes, inconspicuously, but then with all our might and quite openly, so that we can say after a while that we’re living in our own world, not in some previous world…
—Correction
I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
-Gathering Evidence
