Friday, June 7
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"Once while visiting his friend Max Brod, young Kafka awakened Brod's father, who was asleep on a couch. Instead of apologizing, Kafka gently motioned him to relax, advanced through the room on tiptoe, and said softly: "Please - consider me a dream."
- Franz Baumer
Franz Kafka
". . . as I have said often enough, I write for myself in multiplicate,
a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the
horizon of shimmering deserts."
- Vladimir Nabokov