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The kind of funny where you deplore your best friend to burn all your writings after you die but then he publishes them anyway. "Dearest Max, my last request: E
by oldspiceman 12y ago
The kind of funny where you deplore your best friend to burn all your writings after you die but then he publishes them anyway. "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Max_Brod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Max_Brod
- pimlottc 12y agoYou mean Kafka implored Brod, and /then/ he deplored him, posthumously...
- jessaustin 12y agoThat seems impossible?
- rayiner 12y agoBut the original papers are still caught up in a legal battle between the daughter of the secretary of his friend, and the State of Israel. Seems apropos.