“However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.”

— Alan Bennett

"Kafka in Las Vegas", p. 347.
Referring to Max Brod
Writing Home (1994)

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