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Thursdays,” one day a week in which

employees aren’t allowed to speak to

each other.

The people Fried interviewed were

saying out loud what creative people

have always known. Kafka, for example,

couldn’t bear to be near even

his adoring fiancée while he worked:

You once said that you would like to

sit beside me while I write. Listen,

in that case I could not write at all.

For writing means revealing oneself

to excess; that utmost of self-revelation

and surrender, in which a human

being, when involved with others,

would feel he was losing himself,

and from which, therefore, he

will always shrink as long as he is in

his right mind.… That is why one

can never be alone enough when

one writes, why there can never be

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