File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0111, message 104


Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:53:08 +1100
From: saeed urrehman <saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au>
Subject: help with a kafka quote


Can anyone please help me trace the book or story in which Kafka wrote the 
following lines. Thanks in advance, Saeed.

____
When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the 
griefs that are in me and what do i know of yours? And if i were to cast 
myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know 
about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and 
dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one 
another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly as we would before the 
entrance to Hell.

                                 ----- Franz Kafka



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