![]() I think I have read myself through almost all of his work. I put the quote from Kafka's Diary there as a way to tell against myself. No matter how sorry a constitution I may have, even if- "given the same circumstances"- it be the sorriest in the world (particularly in view of my lack of energy), I must do the best I can with it (even in my sense of the word)- it is hollow sophistry to argue that there is only one thing to be done with such a constitution, which must perforce be its best, and that one thing is to despair. Should I greatly yearn to be an athlete, it would probably be the same thing as my yearning to go to heaven and to be permitted to be as despairing there as I am here. ![]() Not foolish enough there is a tiny crack there, the wind whistles through it and spoils the full effect. ![]() Enough imagination to share their happiness, enough judgment to know I am too weak to have such happiness, foolish enough to think I see to the bottom of my own and their situation. "The misery of having perpetually to begin, the lack of the illusion that anything is more than, or even as much as, a beginning, the foolishness of those who do not know this, and play football, for example, in order at last "to advance the ball" one's own foolishness buried within one as if in a coffin, the foolishness of those who think they see a real coffin here, hence a coffin that one can transport, open, destroy,exchangeĪmong the young women up in the park. ![]()
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