No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.– David Foster Wallace, “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness”, Consider the Lobster (via subtle-body)
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I’ve known this for a while. But I still hate it. It makes me very sad to know that I’ll be homesick until I die.