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"Alas," said the mouse, "the world gets smaller every day. At first it was so wide that I ran along and was happy to see walls appearing to my right and left, b
by hprotagonist 6y ago
"Alas," said the mouse, "the world gets smaller every day. At first it was so wide that I ran along and was happy to see walls appearing to my right and left, but these high walls converged so quickly that I’m already in the last room, and there in the corner is the trap into which I must run."
"But you’ve only got to run the other way," said the cat, and ate it.
Das ist komisch.
- dang 6y agoKafka is a comic writer, of course. I think Brod (his friend and editor, and the man who refused his wish to burn his writings after he died) says somewhere that when Kafka used to read his pieces out loud to friends he would sometimes laugh so hard he couldn't continue.
- hprotagonist 6y agohttps://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-07-0059612.pdf https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-... is always worth a read. And it's where i got this little snippet, of course.
- dang 6y agoAhh I thought it was a quote from the OP.
- pvg 6y agoSince we're way in the German Kaninchenbau: https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-of-komisch/ https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-of-komisch/