Surrealism Makes You Smarter.
Two groups of people were subjected to the same test after reading different versions of the same story by Franz Kafka. The first group read the version closer to the original, with the “nonsense” left intact. The second group read a simplified version of it.
Guess which group fared better?
— In UPI, from London.
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