Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

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Swimming in the Afternoon
Swimming in the Afternoon

Swimming in the Afternoon

A Clue from Kafka, and an introduction to this section of FP

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On August 1914, roughly a month after the opening attack of what would soon become the first World War, Franz Kafka wrote this in his diary:

“Germany invades Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.”

Kafka kept a diary throughout most of his adult life; I suppose there’s just so much angst and self-reproach his friends would agree to listen to. They probably bo…

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