bobgarlitz

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I doesn’t have to be a hospital, he said, a prison will do just as well, perhaps even a monastery.  Prisons and monasteries are not really any different from hospitals.  . . .  Now that I was over the worst, I too had an opportunity to see my spell in the hospital as a time spent in an atmosphere conducive to thinking.  . . .  The sick, he said, are the ones who have real clarity of vision; no one else sees the world so clearly.

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—Thomas Bernhard, Breath: A Decision (in Gathering Evidence: 237)