"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." -Kafka
Saturday, November 26, 2011
JSF's inspiration?
Yesterday my family and I went to the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Maurizio Cattelan's art work—a collection of his pieces from 1989—hung from the oculus in the lobby of the building. One of the pieces, in particular, caught my eye. This image of the the back of a woman's head reminded me of the picture Oskar takes of Mrs. and Mr. Black. I wonder if JSF was inspired by Cattelan's piece...

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