“I have no confidence. So, in my heart of hearts I look on myself as a failure. Not that this really matters. Sub specie aeternitatis we all, without exception, are failures. I don’t know where I read that ‘death undermines our confidence in life by showing that in the end everything is equally futile before the final darkness’. Yes, ‘futile’ is the right word. Still I musn’t grumble: I have more friends than enemies and there are moments when I am almost glad to be alive. When I watch the sun set and moon rise, or see snow mountain tops.”
Fred Uhlman (1901-1985), Reunion 2006 [1971], 78.
Die Erzählung ist als “Der wiedergefundene Freund” auf deutsch erschienen. Die Diogenes-Ausgabe umfasst diese Erzählung, diejenige der DVA zudem noch die sie ergänzende “No coward soul is mine”, die dieselbe Geschichte aus der Perspektive Konradin von Hohenfels’ erzählt.
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