I’ve never read Kafka, but my guess is we’ve got a higher comedy quotient with this Clown crew.
My daughter did once tell me the whole story of “The Metamorphoses” (the story where a man turns into a cockroach). She made it seem like a weirdly wonderfully pathetic (in the best sense of the word) story. I’ve never been sure if that’s how it is, or if she just made it sound really good.
Franz Kafka’s writings are really dark. The Metamorphosis is a painful, though captivating read. I’d equate it to losing your mind as far as losing everything you knew as reality.
It’s stuck with me for 30 years, the awfulness of his transformation.
2nd Division Vet is right as it relates to 0bama’s transformation of America.
This latest stunt for 0-care is very worthy of ridicule though. Hit them back with ridicule. They truly are incredulous.
I was forced to read and report on the Metamorphosis back in junior high school. It was an assigned book, not up for negotiation, not with that teacher. I was new to such abstracted thinking, and could only barely get past how disgusting it would be to wake up as a giant roach. My first reaction today? Still YuK! then a sigh of empathy.
I learned much more later, from reading a biography of Franz Kafka. Kafka was six feet tall, not huge by today’s standards, but somewhat uncommon back then, in the late nineteenth century. Franz Kafka was embarrassed by his tallness, and it made him feel conspicuous, as though he could never hide or be annonymus. This feeling of being a misfit, may have been the prelude to developing the concept of the Metamorphosis.