Interesting to note the ubiquity of Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Hasek wrote this in the years immediately following WWI.

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I am! That’s so kind of you! I’m still dithering about my next choice - might be #GoodSoldierSvejk. Basically it needs to be diverting but not excessively so so I can sleep. I don’t want something I get so involved in I’m still listening at 5am. Looking at you, Middlemarch. Tricky.