Hotel Vöterl, Salzburg, where Thomas Bernhard was sent to recover from an illness; it was then a hospital for lung disease patients and so it was there he contracted lung disease, which he died of years later, at age 58.
“Hence the question I repeatedly asked myself was whether or not the doctors who had sent me there were really as brainless, base, and irresponsible as I had often been forced to conclude. As was subsequently shown, they were every bit as brainless, base, and irresponsible as that, in that they had sent a young person who was fighting to regain his health not to a place where he would be cured but virtually to his death.”
“I also rediscovered an urge to read the newspapers, and though I at once found myself repelled by them, this did not prevent me from reding them daily: even at that time I had developed an addiction (a life-long addiction, as it turned out) to the mechanical routine of getting hold of newspapers and reading them–only to be unfailingly repelled by them. Like my grandfather, who had a life-long loathing for newspapers just as intense as mine, I fell prey to this incurable newspaper disease.” 268 Gathering Evidence
