John Burnside - When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them...

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When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

John Burnside

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Wenn Sie ein Kind haben, denken Sie über Ihre persönliche Geschichte nach und überlegen Sie, was Sie als eine umfassendere Erzählung anbieten, und mir wurde klar, dass ich nichts über die Umstände meines Vaters wusste, außer was er mir erzählt hatte.

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