Sublime

they ventriloquized the dead man, addressing the passer-by with some clipped meditation on mortality.

And so I go with the flow and live someone else’s life—except it looks like the bland mass life that all of us are living.

He carried a red Moroccan wallet, as I myself do to this day,

laudable

Only they who go to soirées and legislative balls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them.

And me – the person who was there until a moment ago now – I now seem imaginary too.

“The town at the mercy of a deep loneliness during the day and, come night, of large cats. There’s a beautiful river running through it, and an old stone bridge spanning the river. But it’s not where we should stay.”

Er war von allem Anfang an gegen Silvano, überhaupt gegen das Leben in der Stadt und erst recht gegen das Leben mit einem Italiener in der Stadt, gar nicht zu reden von der Bar.