June 1st, 2009 / 12:40 pm
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Power Quote: Thomas Bernhard

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The matured idea is enough in itself to destroy most people.
Correction, p. 203

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34 Comments

  1. ryan

      that’s brilliant!

  2. ryan

      that’s brilliant!

  3. Ken Baumann

      Yikes. This is a new favorite; I just ordered B’s The Voice Imitator.

  4. Ken Baumann

      Yikes. This is a new favorite; I just ordered B’s The Voice Imitator.

  5. keith n b

      any matured idea? i’m confused, i don’t think i get it. i know a matured woman can destroy most any boy. that makes sense. but a matured idea? does that mean like a generalized something that you live with and its layers unfold and are revealed to you as life-experiences pique your mind for different volts and registers?

  6. keith n b

      any matured idea? i’m confused, i don’t think i get it. i know a matured woman can destroy most any boy. that makes sense. but a matured idea? does that mean like a generalized something that you live with and its layers unfold and are revealed to you as life-experiences pique your mind for different volts and registers?

  7. sasha

      voice imitator is slammin.

  8. sasha

      voice imitator is slammin.

  9. Mark Doten

      The Voice Imitator *is* slammin, but very different from the (mostly) unparagraphed, recursive, ranty novels and memoirs he’s most famous for. It took me a while to warm up (if that’s the word) to TVI; at first I found it flat and pretty annoying. My way in was realizing that many or most of the stories are written in the style of old-fashioned newspaper pieces — which taken together, make for a very weird newspaper indeed. (Many, many pages of love for/vituperation against newspapers in Bernhard’s other novels.)

  10. Mark Doten

      The Voice Imitator *is* slammin, but very different from the (mostly) unparagraphed, recursive, ranty novels and memoirs he’s most famous for. It took me a while to warm up (if that’s the word) to TVI; at first I found it flat and pretty annoying. My way in was realizing that many or most of the stories are written in the style of old-fashioned newspaper pieces — which taken together, make for a very weird newspaper indeed. (Many, many pages of love for/vituperation against newspapers in Bernhard’s other novels.)

  11. Jonny Ross

      Another book on my shelf that needs be cracked.

  12. Jonny Ross

      Another book on my shelf that needs be cracked.

  13. Todd Colby

      Bernhard is just so good. Reading him makes my teeth ache.

  14. Todd Colby

      Bernhard is just so good. Reading him makes my teeth ache.

  15. Michael J

      I don’t get it. What does that mean? Explain it to me please…

  16. Michael J

      I don’t get it. What does that mean? Explain it to me please…

  17. Blake Butler

      if you dont know i dont know how to tell you

  18. Blake Butler

      if you dont know i dont know how to tell you

  19. keith n b

      i asked the same question, i suppose we may never know. i tried to offer my own tentative understanding as a possible interpretation, but the void is large and swallows all voices that do not echo its own name.

  20. keith n b

      i asked the same question, i suppose we may never know. i tried to offer my own tentative understanding as a possible interpretation, but the void is large and swallows all voices that do not echo its own name.

  21. Blake Butler

      more aptly: who gives a fuck what it means

  22. Blake Butler

      more aptly: who gives a fuck what it means

  23. keith n b

      i know you are transmeaning in general. but i am both fascinated and plagued by meaning, as a phenomenon and as an application.

  24. keith n b

      i know you are transmeaning in general. but i am both fascinated and plagued by meaning, as a phenomenon and as an application.

  25. Mark Doten

      it means if you build a perfect cone in the forest and stick your sister in it you’re in love with you’re pretty much fucked, is what it means.

  26. Mark Doten

      it means if you build a perfect cone in the forest and stick your sister in it you’re in love with you’re pretty much fucked, is what it means.

  27. Blake Butler

      :: secret handshake to mark ::

  28. Blake Butler

      :: secret handshake to mark ::

  29. Ryan Call

      , so Roithamer.

  30. Ryan Call

      , so Roithamer.

  31. michael j

      oh. im kinda stoopid. I thought that quote was from someone who was saying something. Like advice quotes. When someone is giving me advice, I like to understand what they’re trying to tell me I gotta do.

      If its from a book, I can run with it as there is no personified intent behind it. Personified intent? whatever… you know what I mean…

  32. michael j

      oh. im kinda stoopid. I thought that quote was from someone who was saying something. Like advice quotes. When someone is giving me advice, I like to understand what they’re trying to tell me I gotta do.

      If its from a book, I can run with it as there is no personified intent behind it. Personified intent? whatever… you know what I mean…

  33. Blake Butler

      it is advice

  34. Blake Butler

      it is advice