In Kafka In The Castle, I fill in the ‘missing’ diary entries from Kafka’s real diary. He either did not fill in these days himself, or he destroyed them. There are some estimates that Kafka destroyed 70% – 80% of everything he wrote.
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22 May 1917
There was even some snow.
They spoke of it at the office. Further down the river some snow and thunder together.
Hysteria traced the words of one man, who claimed he had good information – which he could not reveal – that the enemy has a great machine which can control the weather. That is how they are going to win the war. Freeze us in May, and destroy all our crops.
“And where are these giant weather engines?” somebody asked.
“In France,” was his reply, but he said it with such hesitancy that I knew it was a guess.
“No machine could cause us trouble from that far away,” said another, and there was laughter before work resumed.
Laughter without a touch of mirth.
DE
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