"You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were."
---Franz Kafka ("Conversation With the Supplicant")
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i thought it was a Kafka character i'd never heard of.
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