A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

Author:Peter Handke [Handke, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9781782270300
Google: OQGFAAAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 24482
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 1972-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the rest of them.”

She indulged in the following luxuries: a seat in the ninth row at the movies, followed by a glass of wine and soda water; a one or two-schilling bar of Bensdorp chocolate to give the children the next morning; once a year, a bottle of homemade eggnog; on occasional winter Sundays she would whip up the cream she had saved during the week by keeping the milk pot between the two panes of the double windows overnight. “What a feast!” I would write if it were my own story; but it was only the slavish aping of an unattainable life style, a child’s game of earthly paradise.

Christmas: necessities were packaged as presents. We surprised each other with such necessities as underwear, stockings, and handkerchiefs, and the beneficiary said he had WISHED for just that! We pretended that just about everything that was given to us, except food, was a present; I was sincerely grateful for the most indispensable school materials and spread them out beside my bed like presents.

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