"(...) So, quick, quick! Get noticed. What is that? Again "obstacles and barriers? What do you remember? ... I remember a plateau that rose against grandeur of the sky like a shield of the earth. I saw it from a mountain and prepared to pass through. I started singing.
My lips were dry and disobedient when I said
- Is not it possible to live differently?
- No, he said, smiling, questioning. (...)
build war machines in the background useless, towers, walls, silk curtains and, if we had time we could wonder about it. And keep us in suspense, not falling, fins although more repellent to bats .(...)"
franz kafka, "Description of a struggle," circa 1902.
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