“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”
— Adorno,
“Struwwelpeter” (Shock-headed child), Minima Moralia (1944)
In 1938, one night in winter in Paris, Samuel Beckett was fatally stabbed in the chest
by a man, while walking on the street. After staying
for two weeks
in a hospital, Beckett decided to meet the man in jail and asked why he had attacked him, the man responded: “I don’t know why, sir. I’m so sorry.”
