Recently I Quoted Proust, Now I Quote Kafka

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The Institute of Inane Research

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 

Scott Fitzgerald

—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."

MARGARET ATWOOD

 

The next Fitzgerald page

is  TBD

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