“Especially on fair days, when the air has a particular transparency and nature is lovely for its tranquility alone, one sorrows for the dead with redoubled force.
The essential elements of a person, my father said, come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done seems to have been a taking leave of us. Suddenly the true nature of everything about himthat was merely preparation for his ultimate death becomes truly visible.”
–Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles 16-17
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