[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Here's an attitude towards death …
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:41:41 -0500
Chris Bruce wrote:
The current edition of the German weekly Die Zeit contains the
following quotation from Robert Gernhardt (who died on June 30th). At
first it seemed to me a wonderfully comic bit of 'whistling in the
dark', but has since grown considerably in my estimation; so much so
that it now significantly colours my own attitude towards death.
You might like the novel KLEINZEIT, about someone facing death through
the door. He imagines death the horror of the movies, but death turns
out to be like a small chimpanzee.
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Lisle, IL, USA
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