Unused Ideas For A Fridge

The castaway

photo Mandret

Each year, tens of thousands of music students embark on the stultifying colleges of music and are destroyed by teachers without quality, I thought. Eventually become famous and have still not understood, I thought upon entering the hostel. Gulda or become Brendel and are still there. Gilels become and are still there.

* It did not fit any inaccuracy. His speech did not carry that thought. He hated people who talked without ever going after their thought, so he hated almost all of humanity.

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Our sombreur is a fanatic, once said, Glenn, died almost continually pity he feels for himself.

* Basically, we want to be piano, he says, not man, but the piano, we run from the man we are to become fully piano, and yet it necessarily fails, and yet we do not want to believe he is speaking. The interpreter at the piano (he never said pianist!) Is the one who wants to be a piano, and I tell myself there every day, wake up, I want to be a Steinway, not the man who plays the Steinway is the Steinway itself that I want to be. Sometimes we are close to this ideal, he says, very close, especially when we believe we are already crazy, almost on the path of this madness that we feared more than anything else.

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Wertheimer was always afraid to go beyond his strength, Glenn had never thought he could one day go beyond his strength; Wertheimer apologized to remain at any time in any something he had not reason to apologize even when Glenn had no idea what it was like to apologize.

Thomas Bernhard, The Castaway .