When you mingle your voice with other voices, you are caught as if on a fishing hook.
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
Belonging
When you mingle your voice with other voices, you are caught as if on a fishing hook.
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
Contemplation (Betrachtung), “Kinder auf der Landstraße” (Children on the Country Road), page 14.
German text: Betrachtung, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1913 title page; printed November 1912.
The narrator recalls children singing together beside the road.
Wenn man seine Stimme unter andere mischt, ist man wie mit einem Angelhaken gefangen.