Large shop window, to the left a tall white toy horse, silverware of any imaginable kind arrange along the bottom; beyond that, a reflection of the photographer, the arms up, behind, a Magnolia tree and the façades of street leading away from the store with the shop window.
"The road from appearance to reality is often very hard and long, and many people make only very poor travelers. We must forgive them when they stagger against us as if against a brick wall." Franz Kafka
When Gustav observes that Kafka seems to view the press as far from a “servant of truth,” the author responds:
"Truth, which is one of the few really great and precious things in life, cannot be bought. Man receives it as a gift, like love or beauty. But a newspaper is a commodity, which is bought and sold. […]
Everything, even lies, advances the truth. Shadows do not blot out the sun." 'Conversations with Kafka' by Gustav Janouch.
h/t https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/12/conversations-with-kafka-truth/
VIENNESE SHOP WINDOWS
Infinite Layers of Reality
Tegetthoffstraße
Inner City (First District)
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