But at the very instant when the mouthful of tea mixed with cake-crumbs touched my palate, I quivered, attentive to the extraordinary thing that was happening inside me. A delicious...

Excerpts from Daniel Frank's foreword to Kafka's Zürau aphorisms. Kafka opens the sequence of Zürau aphorisms by drawing an analogy between a path and a rope: “The true path is...