"Once upon a time there was a poor little boy who had no father or mother. Everything was dead, and there was nobody left in the whole wide world. Everything was dead, and he went away and searched day and night. And because there was nobo…
"Every man is a bottomless pit; you get dizzy when you look down [Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund; es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht]." (Büchner. Woyzeck.) 「ひとはみな底なしの穴だ。下を見つめるとめまいがする。」
"—I foresee, Mr Deasy said, that you will not remain here very long at this work. You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong./ —A learner rather, Stephen said." (Joyce. Ulysses. 2:401-3) 「「わたしの見立てでは」とディー…
"On an excursion with Schoenberg and his fellows, Mahler is said to have advised him to study less counterpoint and read more Dostoevsky, only to hear Webern's heroically timid reposte: "Pardon, Herr Direktor, but we have Strindberg."" (Ad…