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Franz Kafka's letter

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[“We were so different and in our difference so dangerous to each other that if anyone had tried to calculate in advance how I, the slowly developing child, and you, the full-grown man, would stand t…

gatheringbones Follow I think franz kafka’s letter to his abusive father is one of the best early works of domestic violence literature and I wish we all talked about it more. gatheringbones [“We were so different and in our difference so dangerous to each other that if anyone had tried to calculate in advance how I, the slowly developing child, and you, the full-grown man, would stand to each other, he could have assumed that you would simply trample me underfoot so that nothing was left of me. Well, that did not happen. Nothing alive can be calculated. But perhaps something worse happened. A

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