john rakestraw on Nostr: “The two friends, one of them blond, resembling Richard Strauss, smiling, reserved, ...

“The two friends, one of them blond, resembling Richard Strauss, smiling, reserved, adroit, the other dark, properly dressed, gentle and firm, all too supple, lisps, both epicurean, constantly drink wine, coffee, beer, schnapps, smoke uninterruptedly, one of them pours for the other, their room across from mine full of French books, write a great deal in the musty writing room when the weather is nice” (Kafka’s Diaries, 29 July 1914).

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