Recent Posts Tagged With 'kafka'

• Are you dead?

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 in kafka

  ‘Are you dead?’ ‘Yes’, said the Hunter, ‘as you see. Many years ago, yes, it must be a great many years ago, I fell from a precipice in the Black forest — that is in Germany — when I was hunting a chamois. Since then I have been...

• The Emperor’s message

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 10:56 in kafka

  There is a parable that describes this situation very well: The Emperor, so it runs, has sent a message to you, the humble subject, the insignificant shadow cowering in the remotest distance before the imperial sun; the Emperor from his deathbed has ...

• The Tower of Babel

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 10:55 in kafka

  First, then, it must be said that in those days things were achieved scarcely inferior to the construction of the Tower of Babel, although as regards divine approval, at least according to human reckoning, strongly at variance with that work. I say t...