#the subtle difference

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The Subtle Difference: Chapter IV – Part II

It has been one year since die Mannschaft won the World Cup. What a glorious day that was! I vividly remember how nervous I was, how happy I was. I cannot even imagine how it would have felt if they had lost. So, cheers to the team and the staff, and to us all! I am going to celebrate by posting another bit from Lahm’s book. The usual disclaimer: since I do not want it to be printed out and used…

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The Subtle Difference: Chapter IV - Part I

I have read some kind words about my translation, and I’m very grateful. I hadn’t had a lot of free time on my hands to continue translating, but last night I got back to it. However, there are going to be some changes, and I hope all of you will understand my reasons for it. (more…)

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[alchea]

Last post about the topic. Read more because I'm better and I'm not going to bother everyone with this.

I think that a certain story worked as the eye-opening experience for me. What made me realize how much incest was fucked up.

I don't remember how I ended up reading it, I think that someone commented it in Tumblr and I just felt curious enough to give it a look. Yeah, it was incest. At the time I thought that it was disturbing, yes, but I wasn't nearly as bothered as I am now.

But it was the most disturbing read I had in a long, long while. It opened my eyes to just how much a human mind needed to be broken to love a family member in that way... About how that obsession derailed minds. That it was, the thought later came to me, the only way to force such a feeling in a person that, naturally, wasn't going to feel in such a way.

It was obsessive, full of dependence and emotional manipulation.

You can ship that. It's fine! But don't try to paint it as a beautiful ideal because it isn't.

[seventeenlovesthree]

We were sitting on the terrace until the early morning, drinking, talking and laughing, and it was still unbelieable that we had just beaten Argentina.

Philipp Lahm on the night after beating Argentina at World Cup 2006 in his book “Der feine Unterschied" ("The subtle difference").

[seventeenlovesthree]

I have to "run the joy away", freak out, run across the pitch, tug on my jersey because there's no one else right now I could squeeze or grab or hug, I head to our bench where everybody's already on their feet cheering, and now I'm finally able to hear our fans, there actually are some of them in the stadium, and then I see Piotr Trochowski running into me, we're colliding like there's no tomorrow, but I don't even feel him, while I'm sure that he'll have to rub his chest for at least three more days at the spot where my shoulder hit him.

Philipp Lahm on his winning goal against Turkey at the EUROS 2008 in his book “Der feine Unterschied" ("The subtle difference").

[seventeenlovesthree]

With Manuel Neuer, we had a goal keeper who was three times taller in confidence than the goal itself.

Philipp Lahm on Manuel Neuer at World Cup 2010 in his book “Der feine Unterschied" ("The subtle difference").

[seventeenlovesthree]

Whoever watches Thomas play, knows what talent is. (...) It's the way he just sneaks around, yeah, that's the perfect word, "sneaks around", making it hard for any opponent, let alone a defender, to get a grip on him and the moment you just don't expect it, he scores like it's the easiest thing in the world. (...) That's when I thought, woah, he's got some talent and we'll be having a lot of fun with him.

Philipp Lahm on Thomas Müller in his book “Der feine Unterschied" ("The subtle difference").

[seventeenlovesthree]

Fact is, no one of us wanted to score that goal as badly as Toni.

Philipp Lahm on Toni Kroos' missed chance to score against Spain at the World Cup final 2010 in his book “Der feine Unterschied" ("The subtle difference").