"Georg stood in a corner, as far from his father as possible. A long time ago he had firmly decided to observe everything with complete thoroughness, so that he might not be somehow taken by surprise in a roundabout way, from behind, from above. Now he once more remembered that long-forgotten decision and forgot it, as one draws a short thread through the eye of a needle."Page eight
I initially marked this quote in my collection of Kafka's short stories because I really liked this metaphor for a quick inconsequential thought. It reminds me of watching Sponge Bob and seeing sounds travel in one side and out the other of Patrick Star's head. I liked this because it was so much more eloquent then that cartoon. Looking back this passage made me think that Georg had once been too cunning to be lead into a trap. The fact that he remembers being this way but then quickly forgets it in the middle of a conversation made me think he would be tricked soon. And he was.
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