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The people are always a people murdered by politicians, Reger said.
Thomas Bernhard
Old Masters, p. 170

It looks as if it could have been . . . But it is plastic, good old plastic.

[ ] of course every people and every society deserves the state they have, and they therefore deserve also its murderers as politicians, Reger said.
Thomas Bernhard
Old Masters, p. 171

a soft hue a hue of soft greyish peach
blue peach creamy peach bluish
fume almost
and the landscape already in a mood a layer of gunsmoke
smoke of hidden gunfire
the grey evaporates from the highway
from the highway indeed a greyish wave of moisterous smoke
makes a flood-soaked landscape
nose dirt swings thru the air