Kafka could be a stickler for routine. When he woke in the morning, he spent a long spell in the bathroom getting ready for the day. He was meticulous in his grooming, always worried about how others perceived him. He always arrived at the office at 8:15 a.m. on the dot, always ate a plain roll while he walked there.10 He returned from the office around 2:30 p.m., at which time, if he could get away with it, he took naps lasting up to four hours, in order to have energy for writing into the late night.11 “Now, in the evening,” he wrote in his diary one night, “out of boredom, washed my hands
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Kafka's routine
