tänker jag då

 Kafka started writing literary prose in his teens.  He soon discovered his odd ability and tendency  to put himself in a half dormant state, some sort of trance,  when writing. Without this ability, it seems   unlikely that he could have written something   close to what he did. Now, writing in this state   of trance seems to have a connection to some state   of ecstasy. Kafka: „My terrible calm takes    my fantasy away.“ He thus seems to have used    an almost pathological state in creation. If    this state or condition was a hypnagogic or     a hallucinate one, we do not know.      What can be inferred from his biography      is that creative periods coincide with       periods of insomnia as well as severe        headaches. Headaches did not torture him         when he refrained from projects that ...