Remember Jochen's Kafka translation of 'the frozen sea within us" cracked by axe-books?

[Mark Kohut]

Here is a perspective on reading as dangerous that I think is much
better than most that
circle around the trivialsphere.

(for those who have read Submission, Huysmans is tellingly alluded to
in this context)

https://aeon.co/essays/how-books-can-sap-the-soul-and-poison-readers-with-ideas
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