No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the…

David Foster Wallace
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No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2005). Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, p.38, Hachette UK
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