The Galician Woman
Eva Deutsch
Brigitte Schwaiger
1984
Do you know what was being discussed today on the radio talk show where everyone can call in and take part in the conversation? We, all of us, are crazy, a certain professor, a psychiatrist, said. So I called in and said, Mister Professor! Because he had said: We are all crazy and realize that something is wrong. I say, It can’t be true that all of…
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