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Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Riddle of the Mountains

Legend is an attempt to explain the inexplicable. Are we really ever rescued? I think it's another question he asks. We try to reduce the world into manageable units of meaning, and that may be our biggest mistake. Maybe we should respect it enough or respect it more. Understand its nature. Put down the knife.

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