"Franz_Kafka_-_Diaries_1913" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kafka Franz)

When I say something it immediately and finally loses its importance, when I write it down it loses it too, but sometimes gains a new one.


A band of little golden beads around a tanned throat.



19 July. Out of a house there stepped four armed men. Each held a halberd upright before him. Now and then one of them looked to the rear to see whether he was
coming on whose account they were standing here. It was early in the morning, the street was entirely empty.


So what do you want? Come!ЧWe do not want to. Leave us!


All the inner effort just for this! That is why the music from the coffeehouse rings so in one's ear. The stone's throw about which Elsa B. spoke becomes visible.


[A woman is sitting at the distaff. A man pushes the door open with a sword which is sheathed in its scabbard (he is holding it loosely in his hand).]

MAN: He was here!

WOMAN: Who? What do you want?

MAN: The horse thief. He is hiding here. Don't lie! [He brandishes the sword.]

WOMAN [raising the distaff to protect herself ]: No one was here. Let me alone!



20 July. Down on the river lay several boats, fishermen had cast their lines, it was a dreary day. Some youths, their legs crossed, were leaning against the railing of the
dock.


When they rose to toast her departure, lifting up their champagne glasses, the dawn had already broken. Her parents and several wedding guests escorted her to the
carriage.



21 July. Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means
that you are alive. And if they don't then everything is over with here, once and for all.


I cannot sleep. Only dreams, no sleep. Today, in my dream, I invented a new kind of vehicle for a park slope. You take a branch, it needn't be very strong, prop it up
on the ground at a slight angle, hold one end in your hand, sit down on it side-saddle, then the whole branch naturally rushes down the slope, since you are sitting on the
bough you are carried along at full speed, rocking comfortably on the elastic wood. It is also possible to use the branch to ride up again. The chief advantage, aside
from the simplicity of the whole device, lies in the fact that the branch, thin and flexible as it is, can be lowered or raised as necessary and gets through anywhere, even
where a person by himself would get through only with difficulty.