Nov 9, 2008
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?… [W]hat we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Franz Kafka

Update: My friend Abraham found the German for this quote.

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My name is Wesley Hill. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in New Testament studies at Durham University (UK).

I occasionally write for Duke Divinity School's "Call & Response" blog.

This is my commonplace book and sometime-journal.

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My book is here: Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality.

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