Wednesday, December 01, 2004

From a letter of Kafka

"The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation - a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."


Perhaps this is true. But I can think of other kinds of books that I want.

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