William Vollmann il grande: da “Europe Central” Autore monumentale di opere altrettanto monumentali, attualmente 66 anni di puro dolore e sperpero vitale (sorella seienne morta mentre doveva sorvegliarla lui che aveva nove anni, impieghi saltuar…

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Who gave you birth?
Fire's my father. Doom is my mother called.

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What child is there that lives, as I did, midway between Reality and Fairyland, that does not long sometimes to leave altogether the familiar world and set off in search of new and fabulous realms?
—Hanna Reitsch, German pilot, ca. 1947

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I have often observed in myself that my will has decided even before my thinking is over.
—Bismarck (ca. 1878)

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