“It was Kafka, after all; who wrote in a now-famous letter that “we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? …What we need are books that hit us like the most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved move than we love ourselves…”
— Jul 18, 2025 11:57AM
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