Happy Birthday Franz Kafka!
As we head into the holiday weekend, let's take a brief moment to remember Franz Kafka, the Bohemian writer whose dystopian chronicles of an all-powerful state where the hopeless are unfairly persecuted for crimes of which they are accused but never quite made aware served as a blueprint for the Bush administration's terrorist detention programs. Author of, among others, The Trial, The Castle and The Metamorphosis, Kafka's bleak vision of life as an unwinnable existential struggle against unidentified forces has resulted in his name being turned into an adjective, used to describe situations similar to those in his work. He was also really into porn. He was born on this day in 1883.
I will, and I really mean WILL watch this sometime over the weekend. (Thanks for leaving the lonely and lovelorn and internet dependent among us with a few playthings). And I have no doubt 18 minute videos on Kafka will turn the tide on finding investors for your site. Love you all.
Oh, and I meant the above with affection, but fuck me anyway.
I'd like to add two things.
1. "In the Penal Colony"
The story that offers the greatest insight into the mind of Dick Cheney, our country's greatest ever Commandant.
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm
2. Whores. He liked whores as well as porn.
Oh, and as long as we're worrying about your business future, you could at least mention how many fart jokes Kafka made. (Czech food is fatty and gassy. Go for it.)
He makes killer rock opera.
Franz Kafka, patron saint of the Internal Revenue Service.
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..Because of the Internal Revenue Service?
Some of it is quite dark, with animals committing fellatio and girl-on-girl action… It's quite unpleasant. Only an Oxford don of a certain ilk would think that these two were equivalently icky.
Josef K was guilty.