mysticism & science
Via The Guardian.UK:
Franz Kafka wanted all his manuscripts to be burned after his death, but his friend Max Brod disregarded the request, seeding a complex legal battle over thousands of manuscripts that has the literary world agog. That legal tussle takes a new twist today as four safety deposit boxes in a Zurich bank containing the manuscripts are opened.
Wow – this is fascinating stuff, Bill. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
And I feel Pete’s pain.
Good point, Pete! Ironic, too.
It just occurred to me how incredibly fortunate Kafka is/was. 75-something years after his death, people are still clamoring for his works to be published, even though he wanted nobody to see them – in contrast to the vast majority of the rest of us writers, whose works nobody wants to publish, even during our lifetime and despite our relentless desire to have them published.
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