She would fall asleep tired at night, and he would wake to kiss her in her sleep and make the sign of the
cross over her.
However you beg you won’t get a drink of water without
abuse: ‘Whenever are you going off, you nasty hussy, you
won’t let us sleep with your moaning, you make the gentlemen
sick.
Unamuno ~ Cahan…?
Though I did
lay it down at the beginning that consciousness is the greatest
misfortune for man,
2: From The Trial by Franz (mesmer?) Kafka
None of you is wearing a uniform, unless what you are wearing" - here he turned towards Franz
Kafka, Franz. The Trial (Kindle Location 160). Feedbooks.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily,
passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a
fact. There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove
that; only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at
all. As far as my personal opinion is concerned, to care only
for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s
good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash
things.
But this I can say for certain: though
I did that cruel thing purposely, it was not an impulse from
the heart, but came from my evil brain. This cruelty was so
affected, so purposely made up, so completely a product of
the brain,
