Weird crossposting but it is actually relevant to all three groups...
From Paul Feyerabend's autobiography "Killing Time", describing his
own family in Vienna around 1934:
Aunt Pepi was maried to Konrad Hampapa, a railwayman and a heavy
drinker himself. They had two children - Konrad Junior, who was
retarded, and Josephine. The family visited us on Sundays, and
Junior played the accordion. He was an excellent musician and
could improvise on any melody he heard. When his father remarried,
he tried to make love to his stepmother, Maria. This, he thought,
was the normal function of a mother, for Aunt Pepi, apparently,
had made love to him. Maria was a kind but determined woman. She
stopped her husband's drinking; but she failed with Konrad Junior.
He left home, roamed the streets, hid in garbage containers (which
at the time were large enough to hold ten people), played his
instrument, and raped the women who came to listen. He died in
an insane asylum at the age of thirty-six - at least, this is what
I heard later, after my return from London. For me (at age ten),
Cousin Konrad was just another relative with a great gift for music.
Stephen King couldn't have made it up.
(I picked this book up because I was Feyerabend's teaching assistant
for a few months when he was at the philosophy department at Auckland
University in the early 70s. He was a gas).
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