Tiredness

 a key essay   first published in about 1990   If only I had read it before reading Don Juan because in this essay he gives his whole interpretation of Don Juan as a tale of tiredness, a hero of tiredness

"Tiredness is greater than the self.  Everything becomes extraordinary in the tranquillity of tiredness . . . . "

"despite the typically mystical stammering in your way of expressing it"   note how stammering would go with shimmering in Handke's dictionary 

remember too how was it in jukebox? that he mentioned in passing how St Teresa was of the school of relaxation into quiet surrender versus those who held one should tighten all the muscles of the body to experience God most directly

last image of mankind reconciled in its last moments in cosmic tiredness