(…) I want to tell you about Thomas Bernhard, Antonio writes, about that one afternoon inside a food court sushi place in the financial district of Los Angeles where Silvina, knowing I was organizing a marathon reading of Correction by Thomas Bernhard, one sentence per person, one shot of Cava per appearance of the word Cone, surprised me by gifting me a hardcover first edition of Correction by Thomas Bernhard—she didn’t have enough money for food why would she spend $35 on me?—don’t be a moron, Toñio—the hardcover first edition of Correction by Thomas Bernhard with two statues on the cover that reminded him of the human figures on Easter Island, the best gift anyone had ever given him, Antonio realized as she handed him the beautiful hardcover first edition of Correction by Thomas Bernhard, displacing in seconds all the wrongheaded gifts he’d received from former girlfriends throughout the years (…).

Mauro Javier Cárdenas: Aphasia, London: Oneworld Publication 2022, S. 55f.