Jul 15, 2003 17:58
' So in the end it remains advisable to accept whatever comes, to behave like and enert mass even if one feels oneself being swept awawy, not be be lured into a single unnecessary step, to regard others with the gaze of an animal, to feel no remorse, in short to crush with one's own hand any ghost of life that subsists, that is, to intensify the final quiet grave still further and let nothing beyond that endure.
A characteristic gesture in such a condition is to run one's little finger along one's eyebrows.'
~ Franz Kafka - metamorphosis and other stories