"You can tell them that maybe it’s good they don’t “get” Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his stories as all about a kind of door. To envision us approaching and pounding on this door, increasingly hard, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it; we don’t know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and ramming and kicking. That, finally, the door opens … and it opens outward — we’ve been inside what we wanted all along."

David Foster Wallace, “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed”

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