Dialogue on the Threshold

Schwellendialog

21 August 2021

The music of hell (2)

 No people sing with such pure voices as those who live in deepest Hell; what we take for the song of angels is their song.

Franz Kafka, unpublished letter, quoted in Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind. Essays in modern German literature and thought (1952), Penguin Books, 1961, p. 202

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