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"When you're young, you think that there are normal people out there, but that you have the misfortune of not knowing any. Later you find out that that's nonsense, that there are no normal people. There are only patients. Some patients are able to stay upright at the expense of other patients and therefore we do not call them patients. We call them successful."
- Arnon Grunberg, in Grunberg Around The World, p. 336 (personal translation)
"In Rituals Cees Nooteboom has Taads Jr. say to Inni Wintrop: "I want to get rid of the thing that I am." Here Nooteboom says something essential about my client. My puppet wanted and wants to get rid of the thing that he is. There are many ways to get rid of that thing.
Taads Jr. lives and dies as a monk. Someone who shuts out pleasure, as if that would only keep the thing he is alive longer. Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, can also follow another path. Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, do not need to put the invisible world above the visible.
The invisible world is beautiful, perhaps, but as long as invisible bread does not ease hunger, as long as invisible sweaters do not give warmth and invisible breasts do not give milk, there are good reasons to prefer the visible world above the invisible world. And to realize that in the visible world, pain can be traded for pleasure. That's one way to get rid of the thing that you are. By making the only trade available in this world.
My client has stolen, I have heard, and exploited. He has forged and deceived to gain possessions from others. It should be clear to all that he has done nothing else than collecting and multiplying pain to gain pleasure. And that is, after all, the principle on which this puppet show is built.
No one should doubt that money is pain, and that we collect that pain hungrily and greedily to secure our pleasure. Pleasure which is, of course, never enough, as I have shown when desire was discussed. Pleasure refers to pain like espresso refers to the coffee bean.
I acknowledge only three kinds of warmth: that of the fireplace and of central heating, that of the body, and that of buttocks which have been paddled with a piece of wood. Those who claim that warmth can come from the Lord, from meditation of from compassion, should be locked up as swindlers because their beliefs are a fraud, cause deception and thus hurl mandkind into misery.
Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, have no other choice: to admit that the point is simply to play the game as good as one can."
- Arnon Grunberg, Praise Of Folly 2001, p. 88 & pp. 113-114 (personal translation)
- Arnon Grunberg, in Grunberg Around The World, p. 336 (personal translation)
"In Rituals Cees Nooteboom has Taads Jr. say to Inni Wintrop: "I want to get rid of the thing that I am." Here Nooteboom says something essential about my client. My puppet wanted and wants to get rid of the thing that he is. There are many ways to get rid of that thing.
Taads Jr. lives and dies as a monk. Someone who shuts out pleasure, as if that would only keep the thing he is alive longer. Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, can also follow another path. Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, do not need to put the invisible world above the visible.
The invisible world is beautiful, perhaps, but as long as invisible bread does not ease hunger, as long as invisible sweaters do not give warmth and invisible breasts do not give milk, there are good reasons to prefer the visible world above the invisible world. And to realize that in the visible world, pain can be traded for pleasure. That's one way to get rid of the thing that you are. By making the only trade available in this world.
My client has stolen, I have heard, and exploited. He has forged and deceived to gain possessions from others. It should be clear to all that he has done nothing else than collecting and multiplying pain to gain pleasure. And that is, after all, the principle on which this puppet show is built.
No one should doubt that money is pain, and that we collect that pain hungrily and greedily to secure our pleasure. Pleasure which is, of course, never enough, as I have shown when desire was discussed. Pleasure refers to pain like espresso refers to the coffee bean.
I acknowledge only three kinds of warmth: that of the fireplace and of central heating, that of the body, and that of buttocks which have been paddled with a piece of wood. Those who claim that warmth can come from the Lord, from meditation of from compassion, should be locked up as swindlers because their beliefs are a fraud, cause deception and thus hurl mandkind into misery.
Those who want to get rid of the thing that they are, have no other choice: to admit that the point is simply to play the game as good as one can."
- Arnon Grunberg, Praise Of Folly 2001, p. 88 & pp. 113-114 (personal translation)