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"Short Talk on Rectification."

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"Kafka liked to have his
watch an hour and a half fast.

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His girlfriend, Felice,
kept setting it right.

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Nonetheless, for five
years, they almost married.

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[LAUGHTER]

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He made a list of arguments
for and against marriage,

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including inability to bear the
assault of his own life, for,

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and the sight of
the nightshirts laid

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out on his parents' beds each
evening at 10:30, against.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Haemorrhage saved him.

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When he was advised not to speak
by doctors in a sanatorium,

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he left glass sentences
all over the floor.

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'Felice', says one of them,
'had too much nakedness left

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in her.'"

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