Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Reached for Kafka’s diaries but pulled out a field guide to birds.  That embarrassed me, was a "poetic" accident, the sort of thing I don't want to see in movies.


Put the field guide back and took out Kafka’s diaries.  Love the part about using one hand to wave the despair away from one’s face and the other hand to write a record of the world, though don’t really feel any disproportionate despair.  It is more like using one hand to wave the world away from one's face and the other to write a record of the world. Wish Kafka had been more interested in clothes. Do share with him the desire for a trade.  This seems to be common in many writers’ journals:  if only I did something real someday.