Buddy's Four Virgils

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At the outset of SAI, Buddy writes that when he wants "any perfectly
credible information about modern artistic processes" he runs to
"--occasionally in real distress--":   Kafka, Kierkegaard, Van Gogh, and
Seymour.

Following this lead, I have been dipping into Kafka's Diaries. I would like
to post a couple--in beaverboard style--and be off.

--Bruce


"10 o'clock, November 15 [1910].  I  will not let myself become tired.  I'll
jump into my story even though it should cut my face to pieces."

"[December 13, 1911]  When I begin to write after a rather long interval, I
draw the words as if out of the empty air.  If I capture one, then I have
just this one alone and all the toil must begin anew."

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