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...Divinity School dismisses that argument outright: "Everyone knows these guys weren't acting on higher principle." Marty sees a deeper moral problem at the root of Watergate. It is the phenomenon of 20th century "amorality -a combination of technology, propaganda and administrative mentality; the kind of dangers Kafka and Orwell warned us of. The problem of the future is not ideology but technicians. Albert Speer [Hitler's industrial commissar] held conventional political views, was a family man, but Speer lacked any psychological and spiritual ballast. Our problem now is a general belieflessness, a nonideological commitment to the system...
...myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors, dreams and hours are contrived, exacted and expended? Is it for this that he has given fifty years to the analysis and explication of the work of Mann and Kafka, Auden, Eliot, John Donne...
Still, after only a few face-to-face meetings, they became engaged during Easter 1914. Almost immediately Kafka's letters began to carry complaints of headaches and increasing insomnia. By July the engagement was over...
During the summer of 1916, Franz and Felice spent a week together in Marienbad. If there was any physical intimacy between them, the letters make no allusion to it. One month after the announcement of the second engagement in July 1917, Kafka writes Felice of his first tubercular hemorrhage. He seems to have broken the news with a sense of relief. TB was not only a way out of marriage but, he believed, nature's final judgment-the fatal wound caused by his warring selves...
Felice Bauer's letters to Kafka have never been located. It is obvious from his later correspondence that she had despaired of any future with him. Within a short time she married a successful German businessman. For Kafka, such a conclusion had probably been clear from the beginning. By marrying he would not be gaining a wife but losing a penpal...