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Friday, July 23, 2010

Kafka Quote Of The Week

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.



Laugh a minute there, Franz.


(Image from David Mairowitz and Robert Crumb's illustrated biography,
Kafka.)


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