He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald BarthelmeStichwörter: insanity madness spite
I met you under the balloon, on the occasion of your return from Norway; you asked if it was mine; I said it was. The balloon, I said, is a spontaneous autobiographical disclosure, having to do with the unease I felt at your absence, and with sexual deprivation, but now that your visit to Bergen has been terminated, it is no longer necessary or appropriate. Removal of the balloon was easy; trailer trucks carried away the depleted fabric, which is now stored in West Virginia, awaiting some other time of unhappiness, some time, perhaps, when we are angry with one another.
Donald BarthelmeOn the other hand I myself have impulses toward violence uneasily concealed. Especially when I look out of the window at the men and women, walking along in the course of a day because I spend so much time, as we all do, looking out of windows to determine what is out there, and what should be done about it.
Donald BarthelmeHow can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?
Donald BarthelmeStrings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.
Donald BarthelmeStichwörter: the-indian-uprising
Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher. The soft pasting noises of the rebel billposters remind us of Oklahoma, where everything is still the same.
Donald BarthelmeI believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
Donald BarthelmeStichwörter: humor wives short-story donald-barthelme me-and-miss-mandible
Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
Donald BarthelmeAnd I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.
Donald Barthelme-You are killing me."
" -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.
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