you see, something here doesn't add up; on this frontier between what goes on inside us and what happens outside, some kind of intermediary link is missing these days, and transmuting them into each other is not possible without tremendous losses; one could almost say that our evil wishes are the shadow side of the life we are actually living, and the life we are actually living is the shadow side of our good wishes.


                                                                                                       robert musil
                                                                                                       agathe, or the forgotten sister