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Franz Kafka's desk I sat at my fine desk ... It's a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer's
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Franz Kafka's desk
I sat at my fine desk ... It's a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer's
Franz Kafka’s desk
I sat at my fine desk … It’s a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer’s knees usually are, it has two horrible wooden spikes. And now pay attention. If you sit down quietly, cautiously at it, and write something respectable, all’s well. But if you become excited, look out-if your body quivers ever so little, you inescapably feel the spikes in your knees, and how that hurts. I could show you the black-and-blue marks. And what that means to say is simply: “Don’t write anything exciting and don’t let your body quiver while you write.”