fuck yeah, franz kafka

“Sweet serpent, why do you stay so far away, come nearer, nearer still, enough, no further, stay there. For you, too, there are no frontiers. How am I to attain mastery over you if you recognize no frontiers? It will be hard work. I begin by asking you to curl yourself up. Curl yourself up, I said, and you stretch yourself. Don’t you understand me? You don’t understand me. But I speak very clearly: Curl up! No, you don’t grasp it. So then I show you, here, with the staff. First of all you must describe a large circle, then inside, adjoining it, a second, and so forth. If then finally you are still holding your little head high, lower it slowly to the tune on the flute that I shall later play, and when I cease, you shall have become quiet too, with your head in the inmost circle.” -Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

FRANZ KAFKA IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE