Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Importance of Being Gentle
I refuse to eat or drink in company. I insist on eating and drinking alone. Meet every day two gallons of rum. Oil for a lamp that's to be kept burning at my side all night. My present clothes should last me for years. All these wishes are making my head spin. And I sure want nothing beyond what I have told you just now, except on August 24th, my name day, a little barrel of two gallons of Rum.
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