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When you're dead...
When you’re dead you’ll get to do everything you didn’t have time to do while you were alive. You’ll finally have time to yourself, you must promise to become very selfish. I see before me: ”Don’t think I intend just to sit here and rot.” Finally you get to tell the president and the minister of defense what you think of them. Not to mention your wife, who ”stole your life.” You’ll be free as the gull you loved to watch through the window of the sauna. You’ll circle the globe and visit other exotic places. For God’s sake, marry the miller’s daughter, that was always your secret wish. You’ve begun your elocution lessons by correspondence, your mouth full of stones like the great masters. Toward fall you’ll compose a tring quartet for grass fire, night frost, compost and sunset. Like Wittgenstein you will learn to whistle all Schubert’s lieder and symphonies except Alte Kameraden.
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