I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no … - Thomas Bernhard

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A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Thomas Bernhard

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

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