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"Seen with the terrestially sullied eye, we are in the situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel, and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be seen, and the light of the end is so very small a glimmer that the gaze must continually search for it and is always losing it again, and, furthermore, both the beginning and the end are not even certainties."

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— Kafka: The Blue Octavo Notebooks. (Translated by Kaiser & Wilkins) 1954/1991