When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment. … - Stephen Greenblatt

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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Stephen Greenblatt

When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment. " I was just floored by that story. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. I'm talking about something I read more than 50 years ago. That story left a little scar on me.

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