Franz Kafka - Letters to Milena (2)

Описание: The Talkative Crow reading a letter from Kafka to Milena.

Dear Frau Milena

I wrote you a note from Prague and then from
Meran. I have not received any answer. It so
happens the notes did not require a particularly
prompt reply and if your silence is nothing more
than a sign of relative well-being, which often
expresses itself in an aversion to writing, then I
am completely satisfied. However, it is also possible
and this is why I am writing - that in my notes
I somehow hurt you (what a clumsy hand I must
have had, if that should have happened against all
my intentions) or else, which would of course be
much worse, the moment of quiet relaxation you
described has again passed and bad times have again
descended upon you. In case the first is true I don't
know what to say, that's so far from my thoughts
and everything else is so close, and for the second
possibility I have no advice - how could I? - but
just a simple question: Why don't you leave Vienna
for a little while? After all, you aren't homeless
like other people. Wouldn't some time in Bohemia
give you new strength? And if, for reasons unknown
to me, you might not want to go to Bohemia, then
somewhere else, maybe even Meran would be good.
Do you know it?

So I'm expecting one of two things. Either continued
silence, which means "Don't worry, I'm fine." Or else
a few lines.

Cordially Kafka

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your
face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked
away through the tables in the café, your figure,
your dress that I still see.