Status Updates From Berlin Alexanderplatz

"You hardly ever open your crusty eyes, you bundle of misery, you human swamp."

I literally cannot stand Döblin's modernist writing style or quirked-up sense of humor but will carry on solely because of its ranking of the 'one of the most important and innovative works of the Weimar Republic.' Please, dear God, let it get better.

"The fly sits under a microscope and thinks it’s a horse."