We saw The Babadook. Thorough spoilers of it and some spoiling of other things, esp. Take Shelter and It Follows, follow. Maybe I should get back to tagging as a way to cross index what I spoil ( Read more... )

"Shakespeare's Memory" is a lot more moving when you take it as being about Borges. That is, that he still had at 80 the memories of whoever it was that could write like he did c. 40, but was not that writer ( Read more... )

I don't really have time to delve into Kafka criticism right now, but wish I could. Coming to them after Eleven Sons it's very hard not to read The Burrow and The Great Wall of China as referring to Kafka's literary works to date, with special references to the three novels: the mole-thing's Castle Keep being The Castle, its flashier abandoned ( Read more... )

General inability to see how things truly are, rendering life horrible ( Read more... )

I don't have Kafka's "He" sequence complete at home so decided to read it in the library as a break from searching ( Read more... )

( More rolls of how I roll these days, when rolling. )

33. The Trial, tr. Breon Mitchell ( Read more... )

In Kafka you fail because of some awryness of your substance ( Read more... )

From October 1921:

It had been impossible for him to enter the house, for he had heard a voice saying to him: 'Wait till I lead you in!' And so he continued to lie in the dust in front of the house, although by now, probably, everything was hopeless...One page and two days after "This ending of the Pentateuch bears a resemblance to the final scene ( Read more... )

Kafka's Diaries, July or August 1912 ( Read more... )