Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:02:20 +0200
From: drach family <y-drach-AT-internet-zahav.net>
Subject: PLC: Musil about SILENCE


Hi all
I thought you may like this quote from ROBERT MUSIL'S diaries
about 'the most silent hour',I must add that 
1. it's out of context
(taken out of a diary entry that speaks about love,and the following
is written as a discovery made when feeling a more tender sort of love
where once felt passion),
2. it's poorly translated by me.
" Every person is a graveyard of his thoughts.
At the very moment they come into being, they are the most precious
to us,later we can feel an intense remorse that they leave us
indifferent where once excited us so much.
The most silent hour is the one between twelve and one of our soul,
it's the time they rise from their graves and each brings us a lost
part of ourself.It gives us a different experience of ourselves, we
become
silent,for we know the inevitability with which they leave us 
at one sharp."

hope i haven't spoiled the beauti in Musil's words by bad translation.
shelly drach
ISRAEL



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