But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine – she wasn’t even qualified for that – and that no one would allow her to sleep until late in the afternoon because these ill-advised people all around her let themselves be squeezed into schedules; that she would never work, least of all learn a trade, because she had no ambition whatsoever to earn a single shilling, become self-supporting and spend eight hours a day with people who smelled bad.

But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine – she wasn’t even qualified for that – and that no one would allow her to sleep until late in the afternoon because these ill-advised people all around her let themselves be squeezed into schedules; that she would never work, least of all learn a trade, because she had no ambition whatsoever to earn a single shilling, become self-supporting and spend eight hours a day with people who smelled bad.

– Ingeborg Bachmann –

Simultan: Erzählungen

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