"Short Talk on Rectification."
"Kafka liked to have his watch an hour and a half fast.
His girlfriend, Felice, kept setting it right.
Nonetheless, for five years, they almost married.
[LAUGHTER]
He made a list of arguments for and against marriage,
including inability to bear the assault of his own life, for,
and the sight of the nightshirts laid
out on his parents' beds each evening at 10:30, against.
[LAUGHTER]
Haemorrhage saved him.
When he was advised not to speak by doctors in a sanatorium,
he left glass sentences all over the floor.
'Felice', says one of them, 'had too much nakedness left
in her.'"