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The man who disappeared (beginning with a Reproach from my Mother and Max Brod in Heaven for taking my seventeen year old son to the Kafka Exhibit at the Jewish Museum instead of something more upbeat on my birthday, December 2002).(Poem)
From:
TriQuarterly
| Date:
January 1, 2005| Author:
Rudman, Mark
| COPYRIGHT 2005 TriQuarterly. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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"Kafka's nervous system required conditions that, it would seem, were
impossible to achieve in Prague."
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"I just don't know, I just don't know, I don't know why
you have to expose the kid to all that morbid stuff.
He doesn't want to look at all those gloomy faces
and entrapment spaces and torture instruments
or be harrowed by the harrow.
Yiddishkeit is famisht.
And what do you know of the old world.
Why should he care about a bunch of dead beards?"
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