It might be that Kafka's letters were better than his stories. "Written kisses don't reach their destination; rather, they are drunk on the way by the ghosts." The twin assistants reflect (as it were) the doppelgänger and the duality of reality. They are the same, and so why should today be different?
1991. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Starring Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Ian Holm, Joel Grey. Music by Cliff Martinez. The print is crude, but it's what we have.
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