It would be quieter, I thought, in Eldest Sister's apartment in a suburb of Taipei, and more convenient for meeting opposition colleagues.[…] Shortly after I joined Eldest Sister and her husband at their home in Yungho, a government agent moved into the apartment above us.

Unlike Heidegger, Kafka does not propose as a solution to Zwitschern – tweeting – a revivified, repotentised Wissenschaft (science) or a method with the power to 'speak being'.

Doing this is against my principles.

Next to this it is imported to comfort the stomach, and to cherish the root of man, that is to say the brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odours and with music.