Thursday, December 21, 2006

My Fight for Survival

Kafka - July 31, 1914:

"I have no time. General mobilization. K. and P. have been called up. Now I receive the salary of solitude. But it is hardly a salary; solitude only brings punishments. It doesn't matter, I am not much affected by this misery, and more determined than ever...I will write despite everything, at any price: it is my fight for survival."