Das Mißverhältnis der Welt scheint tröstlicherweise nur ein zahlenmäßiges zu sein.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. [Kaiser/Wilkins]
The disproportion of the world seems fortunately to be merely numerical. [Hofmann]
Commentary
Again, this one is marked cancelled in Hofmann but not in Kaiser/Wilkins.
What is a non-numerical disproportion? A qualitative disproportion would mean some truths are truer or some beauties more saturated with beauty, but, in order to conceive of this, it would be necessary to come up with a way of thinking in terms of more or less without thinking of number at the same time. If motion is indivisible, then there can be no disproportion there unless we think in terms of higher and lower. I'm not sure Kafka is thinking much about high and low.
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