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Amerika [19/07/2021]
I've been reading Kafka in the past couple of days. For reasons unknown, I had somehow assumed that I 'd covered all possible ground with "The Trial", "The Judgement", "The Castle", and, of course, "The Metamorphosis" ages ago, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover "Amerika" in the public library last week. It is a painful experience to read Kafka. Always has been. More than any author I know, he has the cursed propensity for putting together Hell: Mounting, surreal discomfort, inescapable in the way only nightmares are, and evoking a sort of malaise that escalates into vertigo levels of unsettlement. I re-read "Letter to His Father" on the side, to keep in mind the psychological context of Kafka's literary work, and, quite frankly, in the same way we start reading comments when a video becomes too scary. "Amerika" isn't even that dark. It is the only one of his works that has a happy ending in fact. It, too, is an unfinished work, and there is a discernible gap in the narrative between discomfort and happy ending. The sudden change in tone caught me by surprise. The happy ending is also delivered in a surreal, unrealistic-realistic manner, and it made me think how different the word "Kafkaesque" would have been if the author had concentrated his distinctive style into producing a "happy" surreal effect. At the same time, as I was reading the upbeat ending, I couldn't help but feel that what with the trumpeting angels and devils, and everyone -the more down on their luck the better- being effortlessly accepted in the legendary theater, Karl died sometime along the way, unceremoniously perishing from the continuous maltreatment inflicted upon him, and went to Heaven.
Italia campione d'Europa! 🇮🇹🏆⚽ [12/07/2021]
Complimenti all' Italia e alla squadra Azzurri straordinaria! Finale meritata!
Ti vogliamo bene, i tuoi vicini 🇬🇷❤️.
Staying humble [08/07/2021]
I got vaxxed so, naturally, I now use a 🎩 on top of any face emoji I send to anyone who hasn't gotten vaccinated yet. Of course this joke can't go on forever. Once I get the second dose, I will start using a 👑.
The Danish defense [07/07/2021]
Should go on to do ads for mattresses or something, given the wonderful REM sleep they were having while Viking wallkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was saving the penalty.
The watermelon [06/07/2021]
My mother, after my father brought home the worst, most watery watermelon of all times, having ignored her 👏1! 👏2! 👏3! rules for how to pick a good watermelon:
Mom -(Nevertheless), God gave us this watermelon, so we shouldn't throw it away.
My father and I at the same time, under our breaths:
Me -This watermelon definitely didn't come from God.
Dad -This is not a watermelon.
...It will probably take a couple more days to finish this thing.
Πόσα βιβλία να έχει γράψει άραγε [25/06/2021]
Ο Στήβεν Κινγκ από την τελευταία φορά που ασχολήθηκα (?)🤔
Jean Peter's endless bleeding [20/06/2021]
The second reading of "A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White", is going significantly better. A muted Brando continuously changing sheets from underneath Peter's bleeding body, is the long-awaited response to the mythology surrounding the sanitized-sexualized female body's functions. It's incredibly aggravating that, until very recently, the leading cause of death for women in the developed world was childbirth, and, yet, the only discussion still surrounding it is some rose-colored "miracle of life" nonsense.
Τα πηγάδια της Quinta da Regaleira [19/06/2021]
Τόσο καιρό λέω στον εαυτό μου "με το που θα εμβολιαστώ θα φύγω Ισπανία και σιγά μη με ξαναδείτε ποτέ", αλλά μήπως τελικά να πάω Πορτογαλία να βρώ το σανγκ ρεάλ? 🤔
Postmodernism & the Distrust of grand narratives [19/06/2021]
I like it in principle. While going through "A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White", I understand jack all of course.
Straight to Avīci [18/06/2021]
I've been doing nothing but killing flies, killing their brethren and killing their offspring, five days in a row. My bloodlust would be quenched, if only I could posess a door mesh net that doesn't suck. Until then, I have no choice but to continue my rampage, swinging the orange electric racket of death that has already claimed the souls of so many. Also, I wish the police horses wouldn't shit in front of the house, endlessly calling reinforcements to the battlefield.
Πάσσαρης - Πάνια [17/06/2021]
Δύο το βράδυ, κουφόβραση, και βλέπω συνέντευξη Πάσσαρη στην Πάνια. Ξέρωγωμητουμιλάςσανα'ναικαθυστερημένοςέλεοςήδηυποφέρουμε.
Dogra Magra [09/06/2021]
I still can't get over the fact that Yumeno Kyusaku's work hasn't been translated into English.
Ugh [08/05/2021]
I feel that the whole lockdown gig, the entire past year basically, should have endowed me with some revolutionary enlightenment; ~THE Epiphany To End ALL Epiphanies~.
...Meanwhile, the only thing I learned is how to do online shopping more cost-effectively.
Roman spy [04/04/2021]
Imagine having to report back to Rome on Jesus's activities:
- Ambulavit in aqua!
- Prohibere vinum bibens, Cassie.
Hue hue hue [23/03/2021]
I did a thing.
Arab-Mongol ninjas (???) [20/02/2021]
The Rouran in Mulan (2020). Aguilera's "Loyal Brave True" was the bomb though.
Παραλίγο να γίνει όλη η σελίδα PDF [11/02/2021]
Πατάω διάφορα κουμπιά κατά λάθος και το chromebook απειλεί να καταστρέψει ζωές.
Maleficent 2 [08/02/2021]
The only possible conclusion is that humans waged war on the fae folk once again, turning everyone into plants and animals with the red powder. Cause humans suck. ~The end~
Ναι! [05/02/2021]
Έγραψα και follow-up παρά την έλλειψη βοήθειας από τους: Ιούδας Ισκαριώτης και Τέκνον Βρούτος. 😁😝
Great Success! [05/02/2021]
Fixed some glitches in the site.
"In that shop of shady wares [30/01/2021]
fitted with deal shelves painted a dull brown, which seemed to devour the sheen of the light, the gold circlet of the wedding ring on Mrs. Verloc's left hand glittered exceedingly with the untarnished glory of a piece from some splendid treasure of jewels, dropped in a dust-bin". OR, the kind of stuff that sells poorly in its own time. 😒
Civil Unrest [06/01/2021]
Stomping on journalistic equipment: 0 IQ. The one guy methodically pouring water over it: 200 IQ.
The moral of the story is [05/01/2021]
That a Miss Julie at least inspires a Hedda Gabler.
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