Kafkish
Gary Gulman: “One of the most pretentious things you can say is ‘Kafkaesque.’
“I think he was in the chess club”
Kafka in high school.
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A UCSB mega-dorm: Now with links to a letter of resignation and an opinion piece by Dennis McFadden, an architect affiliated with the University of California at Santa Barbara.
A UCSB mega-dorm
Hey, University of California at Santa Barbara: Franz Kafka called, and he wants his idea for a dorm back.
Franz Kafka, artist
“Drawing and sketching extensively before he published a single word.”
“Only those regions”
From Letter to the Father.
A clean, well-lighted place
Kafka on doing das Äusserste , the utmost, or the Utmost.
“A clearer perspective of the world”
From Franz Kafka’s Letter to the Father.
Bill Griffith’s Metamorphoses
Kafka as Zippy as Gregor Samsa.
Zippy metamorphosis
It’s Samsa-time again.
Gregor Z.
Reading Kafka before bedtime.
Zippy and Kafka
Withdrawal from the sufferings of the world.
“Till spring?”
“How much longer is it till spring?”
Filing a complaint
K. cannot take a joke.
Gregor Z.
Zippy reads Kafka.
One Kafka sentence
“If the period is omitted, then the sentence is no longer constrained and blows its entire breath at the listener.”
“A few days of living with K.”
From The Trial. Life with K.
Poor K., poor Frieda
Frieda has shown that she can make any room comfortable to live in, but there’s little she can do here.
“What else could I talk about”
K.’s landlady Gardena was on three occasions a partner to the Castle official Klamm. Not four or more times, just three. It’s all she can talk about.
“Only appearance”
A complete story: Kafka’s “The Trees.”
Dog science
From Kafka’s “Investigations of a Dog.”
An ex-ape speaks
From “A Report to an Academy.”
“Ah, coherent”
From “The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment.”
Kafka, strange and stranger
From two manuscripts of a story, one strange, the other stranger.
K., duh
Leni, nurse and perhaps mistress to the lawyer Huld, chastises Josef K.
“A brief overview of his life”
From Kafka. I think of the “portfolio” that accompanied my application for tenure, assembled in three three-inch looseleaf binders.
Eyes everywhere
From Kafka’s The Trial.
“We’re drowning in filth”
Flogging in the workplace. From The Trial.
Kafkaesque
Trending at Merriam-Webster.
“Bushy black and large”
Dreamlike and highly cinematic, from The Trial.