
The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling

But before we go out into the street, one last image of tiredness. All right. It is also my last image of mankind, reconciled in its very last moments, in cosmic tiredness.
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
be surmounted.
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
I know of no recipe, not even for myself. All I know is this: Such tiredness cannot be planned, cannot be taken as an aim. But I also know that it never sets in without a cause, but always after a hardship, a difficulty needed to
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
Everything becomes extraordinary in the tranquillity of tiredness—how
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
Such confusion is at present just the thing for me and my problem.
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
In this stage the tired god sat tired and feeble in his tiredness, but—just a notch tireder than a tired human had ever been—all-seeing, with a gaze which, if acknowledged and accepted by those seen, regardless of where in the cosmos, would exert a kind of power.
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
although none of these may suspect the presence of the others, they are all there together at the moment, my moment.
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
I have an image for the “all in one”:
Peter Handke • The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
And in the tired look, the relative is seen as absolute and the part as the whole.