Oscar Pistorius breaks Twitter silence with Viktor Frankl passage

AS the end of his murder trial looms, Oscar Pistorius has tweeted for the first time since Valentine’s Day — with one a passage from a Holocaust survivor.

Oscar Pistorius attends court at his murder trial for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on St. Valentine's Day 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Pistroius' lawyer Barry Roux says he has closed his case, and the judge says final arguments will be held in court on Aug. 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Alon Skuy, Pool)

AS the end of his murder trial looms, Oscar Pistorius has tweeted for the first time since February 14, the anniversary of the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

With his 39-day trial for the alleged murder Steenkamp adjourned until August 7 when the prosecution and defence will make their closing arguments, Pistorius decided to break his social media silence.

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The athlete, who became the first amputee to win an able-bodied world track event at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, posting three bizarre messages in quick succession on his Twitter handle to his 353,000 followers, Mirror UK reported.

The first post was a Psalm:

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— Oscar Pistorius (@OscarPistorius) July 13, 2014

Then several images of Pistorius with children.

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— Oscar Pistorius (@OscarPistorius) July 13, 2014

And finally, a passage from Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s best-selling book “Man’s Search for Meaning”.

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— Oscar Pistorius (@OscarPistorius) July 13, 2014

The book was written after Frankl’s time in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Frankl is known for his concept Logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, with one of its basic principles that “life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.”

Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to murdering Steenkamp, claiming he fired his Taurus 9mm pistol through a locked bathroom door, fearing an intruder was on the other side. The prosecution alleges that Pistorius shot out of anger, knowing it was Steenkamp, not an intruder, hiding inside the bathroom.