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Monday 26 September 2011

Life narration

Wilholm Friedland , of Trompe-Souris, France spent 15 years and 17 weeks narrating his life, starting in May 1984. Interviewed in 1990, he commented, “’It has made communication with my wife problematic, as I say out loud thoughts I would normally keep to myself,” He said, thinking of the time when he had announced his desire for the waitress at the Three Roosters at the breakfast table.
Friedland, pictured in a Tours market in 1999. Shortly after this photograph was taken, he was arrested by a female police officer for making comments as he passed her which she, "refused to record." He was later released without charge. Photo by istolethetv.

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