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When I Was Quite Young I Came Across A Collection Of [franz] Kafka Stories And Read "the Judgment." I Was Just Floored By That Story. I Couldn't Understand It. I Still Don't. I'm Talking About Something I Read More Than 50 Years Ago. That Story Left A Little Scar On Me.

My Father Who In This Case Was An Obsessive Life-long Storyteller, And By A Very Peculiar Trick Of My Father's. My Father Would Tell A Very, Very Long Story, And The Punch Line Would Be In Yiddish.

Through Reading Literature We Can Make Ghosts Speak To Us, And We Can Speak Back To Them.

The Shakespeare That Shakespeare Became Is The Name That's Attached To These Astonishing Objects That He Left Behind.

The Greatest Obstacle To Pleasure Is Not Pain; It Is Delusion.