Tore away life
When he was not satisfied with the book, he would tear it into two pieces and throw it over the balcony. And every morning we went to see if Matoš had thrown away any books...
"The poet Vjekoslav Majer remembers - as a child - Matoš, during 1912:
»He lived in a room with a balcony at Josipovac no. 20. and he had a large dining table moved to that room to be stretched, he had so many books, a large, stretched table full of books. He received many books for review, so whenever he was not satisfied with a book, he would tear it into two pieces and throw it through the balcony down into the garden.
And every morning we went to see if Matoš had thrown away any books. So one morning I found a book of Cipicco's novels, wet (...), it had been in the rain all night, in the mud. The book is not torn, because it is bound.
Cipicco knew that Matoš would not read much, so he wrote on his left side: Read, please, Ortgnuti život. "Symbolically."
Source: Zalar, D. "Antun Gustav Matoš". Lektire.skole.hr. https://lektire.skole.hr/autor/antun-gustav-matos/