Kafka's Aphorisms in BtZ

[Smoke Teff]

Probably won't have a chance to really start engaging for another day or
two, but a preliminary note:

p. 5 of my copy of *GR*: "There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and
be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in
darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before or
after?"

I see some connection between this and one of Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms (a
fav; #109):

There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and
alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do
otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.
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