POESIA:" THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY" BY KAFKA

UM PÉROLA DE TEXTO DE AUTORIA DE FRANZ KAFKA, QUE VIROU TÍTULO DE UMA ACLAMADA OBRA DE EDMUND WHITE.

"SOMETIMES I HAVE THE FEELING THAT
WE'RE IN ONE ROOM WITH TWO OPPOSITE DOORS
AND AS EACH OF US HOLDS THE HANDLE OF ONE DOOR,
ONE OF US FLICKS AN EYELASH AND THE OTHER IS ALREADY BEHIND HIS DOOR.
AND NOW THE FIRST ONE HAS BUT TO UTTER A WORD AND IMMEDIATELY THE SECOND ONE HAS CLOSED HIS DOOR BEHIND HIM AND CAN NO LONGER BE SEEN.

HE'S SURE TO OPEN THE DOOR AGAIN FOR IT'S A ROOM WHICH, PERHAPS, ONE CANNOT LEAVE. IF ONLY THE FIRST ONE WERE NOT PRECISELY LIKE THE SECOND. IF HE WERE CALM. IF HE WOULD ONLY PRETEND NOT TO LOOK AT THE OTHER. IF HE WOULD SLOWLY SET THE ROOM IN ORDER AS THOUGH IT WERE A ROOM LIKE ANY OTHER ...BUT, INSTEAD, HE DOES EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OTHER AT HIS DOOR.
SOMETIMES EVEN BOTH ARE BEHIND THE DOORS AND THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY!"