Swing Low A Life (NF8) by Miriam Toews

Author:Miriam Toews
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307375612
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2005-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

A friendly male nurse has entered my room to tell me that I am not what I said I was, that I am being too hard on myself. Now, I cannot remember what I said I was. What did I say I was? I asked him. You said, Mel es en schinde, and that is not true. But of course it is, I say, schinde is a Low German expression meaning “lower than low,” originally, I believe, one who tortures horses, a taskmaster, a tyrant. I am personally responsible for Elvira’s demise, I intone rather formally. I drove her to despair. No, says the nurse, you did not. You are ill, that’s not your fault. How naive and kind of him, I think as he pats me on the shoulder. I notice our watches are similar and point this out to him. He is excessively pleased. He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students.

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