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Franz Kafka - The Penal Colony (stories and short pieces)

Schocken Books - paperback 1961 - p.39

The Street Window

Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere, whoever, according to changes in the time of day, the weather, the state of his business and the like, suddenly wishes to see any arm at all to which he might cling - he will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street. And if he is in the mood of not desiring anything and only goes to his window sill a tired man, with eyes turning from his public to heaven and back again, not wanting to look

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out and having thrown his head up a little, even then the horses below will draw him down into their train of wagons and tumult, and so at last into the human harmony.

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Walt Whitman Correspondence. Vol 1 1842-1827

ed by Edwin H. Miller New York University Press 1961

The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman

106 Myrtle Av. Brooklyn Oct 10, 1850

Mr. Stuart,

I take the liberty of writing, to ask whether you have any sort of "opening" in your new enterprise, for services that I could render? I am out of regular employment, and fond of the press - and, if you would be disposed to "try it on," I should like to have an interview with you, for the purpose of seeing whether we could agree to something. My ideas of salary are very moderate.

Would you like a Story, of some length for your paper? Please answer through P.O.

Yours, &c.

Walter Whitman

Letter belongs to Huntington (New York) Historical Society