Monday, August 14, 2017

"People fall off the scaffolds -- Note for a Discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

"People fall off the scaffolds as if they were drunk, into the machines, all the beams topple, all embankments give way, all ladders slip, whatever people carry up falls down, whatever they hand down, people stumble over. ...
--Kafka 

For a person as sensitive as Kafka was, or at least as he presented himself as being—it is entirely possible to view his life in a light other than the one he himself shone upon it—inner escape was the only available strategy. “If we are to believe his own personal mythology,” biographer Reiner Stac...
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