Posted by Sigismund on August 26, 2008, at 15:00:46
In reply to Re: Identity disturbance » Sigismund, posted by susan47 on August 26, 2008, at 13:03:51
Hello Susan
That was shamelessly cribbed from "Swimming in a Sea of Death" by David Rieff, the memoir relating to Susan Sontag's difficult death.
I think the point of the anecdote is that Brecht accepted death, or at least pretended to. This has something to do with giving up a sense of identity. It reminded me of things I have read in Taoism or Zen.
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