FLEISCHMANN: How are you feeling at the moment?
BERNHARD: Extremely content, I have to say. The water's splashing, the sun is shining; simple Spaniards and Englishmen who can't be understood [are talking]—an ideal constellation. But it won't last long. All of a sudden the whole thing is struck by a bolt of lightning that destroys it completely. But perhaps today it’ll last all the way through till night; anything’s possible. Occasionally everything’s nice for a couple of days at a stretch.
—Thomas Bernhard Interviewed by Krista Fleischmann
Author: Thomas Bernhard
![FLEISCHMANN: How are you feeling at the moment?<br /><br />BERNHARD: Extremely content, I have to say. The water's splashing, the sun is shining; simple Spaniards and Englishmen who can't be understood [are talking]—an ideal constellation. But it won't last long. All of a sudden the whole thing is struck by a bolt of lightning that destroys it completely. But perhaps today it’ll last all the way through till night; anything’s possible. Occasionally everything’s nice for a couple of days at a stretch.<br /><br /><a href="http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.ch/2011/08/translation-of-monologue-auf-mallorca.html" rel="nofollow noopener">—Thomas Bernhard Interviewed by Krista Fleischmann</a> - Thomas Bernhard](/static/img/quotes/836045.jpg)