On the first day. Usually a "Humph" or "Hmm" or even a "Ha" followed by a quick up-snap of the head and scan of the faces in the room, searching for one with dark, hollow eyes, dramatically punctuated with thick slashes of eyebrow above and a thin, sad smile about to form the word, "Here."
Inspired by the first line from "Bright Morning" by Jeffrey Ford: "If there is one thing that distinguishes my books from others it is the fact that in the review blurbs that fill the back cover and the page that precedes the title page inside, the name of 'Kafka' appears no less than eight times."
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