"According to Luther everyone judges everyone. This is because there's an intense desire to be judging. Then those of us on the masochistic side of things want to be judged. Thus we publish. We teach. We learn. We beg to be judged and decimated."
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"Kafka's Before the Law: The Law of the Father" (2011) 15:16
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