"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka was born #OTD in 1883.

His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing. via @Wikipedia

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The perfect answer to Bowie’s observation in “Ashes To Ashes”

“I've never done good things,
I've never done bad things,
I never did anything out of the blue;
Want an axe to break the ice,
Wanna come down right now”