Tag: kafka
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October 11, 2008 09:36 PM EDT --
A twisted story about a boy named Kafka who runs away, and an old man named Nakata who isn't very bright.
The odd chapters tell Kafka's story, a tale of a boy who runs away to escape a curse . . .
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September 19, 2006 02:39 AM EDT --
Franz Kafka never bothered much to make his work known. At the time of his death, he left instructions to his then lover, Dora Diamant, to destroy everything he had left to her. Max Brod had received the . . .
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January 29, 2008 06:03 PM EST --
Laughing at Kafka
As a boy growing up, I was often the object of scorn. It is the way with boys growing up in our culture. Once, when the children stood around me with pointing fingers, snickering . . .
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May 30, 2009 11:33 AM EDT --
Franz Kafka wrote this in his diary: "I have hardly anything in common with myself."
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April 30, 2008 01:55 AM EDT --
The Bible is a given for me.
So
1. Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka
2 . King Lear by William Shakespeare
3. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I could go . . .
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November 30, 2008 11:22 AM EST --
By Ray McGovern -- "There is no right to due process for an alien who is not here," insisted the 44th Solicitor General of the United States, Gregory G. Garre, proudly representing the President . . .
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April 27, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
Before i forget :thanks for the inspiration , you know who you are..
Did i ever do that?
lay in the sun and think
it revolves around me?
was the world ever large and full of possiblities . . .
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July 08, 2008 03:47 AM EDT --
Today
a glorious July day
i sit and try to dig inside the grave
of all those things i had buried years ago
or even as recent as yesterday
i walk in the door and seek the company . . .
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March 04, 2007 12:03 PM EST --
I have long looked to Milan Kundera's two books of nonfiction Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed as central to a conception of myself as a novelist. I have not read many books on writing, I find . . .
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October 24, 2007 09:13 AM EDT --
NEW YORK — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling served up a bombshell Friday evening during a reading at Carnegie Hall, telling a crowd of fans from throughout the United States that Dumbledore, . . .
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November 24, 2006 07:21 AM EST --
"Mom,", she would soon write, "please send my copy of Kafka's collected writings as soon as possible!"
She needed to make sense of her day in court
she needed to . . .
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February 11, 2008 01:54 PM EST --
I am the artist of torment
so well described by Franz Kafka
i am cholera
I am pain and never pleasure
my door may be adjacent
but it is never really open
to anyone
. . .
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September 22, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
I lost my wallet and passport somewhere between home and the complete opposite end of the city last night. My wallet contained all of my credit cards, my driving license, my Norwegian and . . .
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January 17, 2009 05:15 PM EST --
Welcome to "A Poem From Thee Bi-Weekly Be". Here's how it works:
I will offer an inspirational challenge to poets weekly. Depending on the response, one to five poems written in response . . .
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September 22, 2006 06:11 PM EDT --
Has anyone here read Francine Prose's new book "Reading Like a Writer?" It's an AMAZING book that teaches writers the all-important but all too often forgotten lesson of READING in order . . .
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July 11, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
There is a piece of plywood
in my bedroom on the floor
I woke to find my head
fastened to it with a wood screw
my shoulders, arms, and pelvis too
but there was no blood
to believe and ogle . . .
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December 26, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
THE SON OF GREGOR SAMSA is dedicated to my eighteen-year-old daughter, to be given to her on her fiftieth birthday.
I stood there at the kitchen window today, here on Christmas morning, . . .
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January 29, 2008 05:56 AM EST --
"When i am the sea
Each atom flames out of me.
I blaze! Each moment is
This one total moment."
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March 28, 2006 09:13 PM EST --
Could it be that in each of us, there dwells a small dram of Kafka's existentialism? The following tale of Miss Bertha is based on absurdity. It shows an unusual degree of individualism and projects . . .
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February 21, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Relating Struggles
Franz Kafka had a poor relationship with his father, had to support his family, bared a guilty . . .
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