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reveals the following encounter
in the Eternal Blissful Garden
reserved for the Literati
after serving their time
on Earth.
Franz Kafka ordered
ten copies of the tilted book
pictured below.
He gave a copy to
—his favorite American writer—
and this is what
Kafka said:
"Scott, I would sacrifice
all this Eternal Bliss
if only I could return
to Earth to meet
the woman
who wrote
these tilted words"
Fitzgerald responded
"Franz, hardly a day goes by
when I don't feel the same way.
But it doesn't matter
what the words are."
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| MARGARET ATWOOD |
The next Fitzgerald page
is TBD
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Was Scott Fitzgerald really Kafka's "favorite American writer"?
ReplyDeleteOliverio says:
DeleteYES Kafka loved Fitzgerald's writing if
—for no other reason—the beautiful grace of language
used by FSF and despite the fact that Scott
always mispelled the Austrian author's name
"Franz Kaffka