“Whatever you write it’s always a catastrophe. That’s the depressing thing about the fate of a writer … All you deliver is a bad, ridiculous copy of what you had imagined … It’s especially hard in the German language, because that language is wooden, clumsy, disgusting. A terrible language that kills anything light and wonderful. The only thing one can do is sublimate that language with a rhythm to give it musicality.”

Thomas Bernhard interview, quoted in a Josipovici article.

“Being speaks German.”

Heidegger

Hmm.