Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites. . … - Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin

Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites. . . In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.

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