• I am just now getting around to reading Letters to Felice. Letters to Milena is next. I don't know how many editions were published, but the one I'm reading has an explanatory foreword called Kafka's Other Trial and it relates what exactly Kafka was working on during his correspondence with Felice and two subsequent broken engagements to her. It is fascinating, but also terribly depressing. I haven't begun reading the letters yet; I'm still reading about his "other trial." Someone on the "Letter to Elise" page suggested these (to everyone in general) as further reading; if I had any manners I should thank them, but this is the internet and they probably left that comment years ago. I'm going to try my best not to steal from him once I start reading his letters...except I just noticed something new to read, and of course read it in the midst of writing this entry--I am reminded of something he wrote to her upon opening a letter and finding it to his liking. Sometimes I wish you could see me read these, and sometimes I'm glad you can't. They always have my undivided attention, but an especially good one--one that gets inside my head-- will leave me slightly breathless, lips barely parted, "hot with silent joy." Those words sound vulgar from me--I think I'll leave them to Kafka.

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