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Amerika

 



Today I took the Staten Island Ferry so I could see the Statue of Liberty from the water. I found her every bit as surreal and beautiful as you would expect.

It brought to mind the beginning of Kafka’s unfinished novel ‘Amerika’:

‘…sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty…the arm…rose up as if newly stretched aloft’.

Then I did a Statue of Liberty impersonation. The ice-cream cost $8. I nearly fainted! 

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