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INTERVIEWER
So many of your heroes have bad consciences. What sins have your characters committed in order to have such bad consciences?
FRISCH
Actually, I don’t know sin. I know guilt.
INTERVIEWERSo there’s no connection between sin and guilt?
FRISCH
You know the awful thing—I know I’m not answering your question—is that we in this neo-Christian age still have some fixed ideas about believing in the whole thing, the whole Christian church. For instance, let’s take sexuality. As a very young boy I was very upset when I realized I had an erection. A sin. This goddamned erection, and so on. I didn’t know who had told me about that. I wasn’t even three years old yet and already there was this burden of judgment. Everything was so unclear, it was so disturbing. The idea that by birth you are born a sinner. Why? I didn’t ask to be born. Why do I have to be born on a blacklist?
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