thus happens reader, closer comes novel’s end, wishes back summer begi — Franz Kafka, Penal Colony Stories

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And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

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