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For Kafka subtly the praying mantis shifts its leaf-stick body laced with fire glint—engraved tracing of dioxin a condensery become a crematory —mint— was that

what was meant? “a book” succumbs the sea frozen fathoms thick axe handle porous—perhaps blight

Letter to Oskar Pollak, 1904: A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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