25 November 2008
My Life and Times
Thomas Bernhard

Claus Peymann Buys Himself a Pair of Pants and Joins Me for Lunch


Austrian comedy

PEYMANN: 
So who’s that

ME:
 The Vice Chancellor
a Nazi

PEYMANN:
 And him over there

ME:
 The Defense Minister
a Nazi

PEYMANN: 
And him

ME:
 The Foreign Minister
an old Nazi

PEYMANN: 
And him over there

ME:
 The head of the General Accounting Office
an old Nazi

PEYMANN: 
And him

ME:
 The Editor-in-Chief of the most prestigious newspaper in Vienna
an old Nazi

PEYMANN: 
And that guy there

ME:
 The Editor-in-Chief of the second most prestigious newspaper in Vienna
an old Nazi

PEYMANN: 
And him over there

ME:
 That’s the minister of Culture and Sport
an idiot a moron

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