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Projekt 52 - Eure Lieblingsgeschichte
Gedankendeponie | May 11th 2008 by Konna
Also diese Woche fand ich das Thema des Projekts 52 von Mondgras extrem schwierig. “Eure Lieblingsgeschichte” lautet es und so wird ähnlich wie zum Songinterpretations-Thema eine fototechnische Interpretation eines Buches bzw. einer Ges read more
Metamorphosis - Part II
Great Books ~ A Chapter a Day | May 9th 2008 by Walter Burek
He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value - in order to see what had been happening there. Download audio file (kafka-part2.mp3) submit_url = 'http://www.g read more
Metamorphosis - Part I
Great Books ~ A Chapter a Day | May 8th 2008 by Walter Burek
When Gregor Samsa wakes from troubled dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lays on his armour-like back, and if he lifts his head a little he can see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches read more
An Invitation To A Beheading.
Absurdistry | May 6th 2008 by Absurdistry
I used to love sitting alone in a chair and reading a good book. Nothing brought me greater pleasure. I would read a novel a day while enjoying the background sounds of birds chirping and cats meowing. Nothing was as effective in diminishing my stres read more
a new place
Enlightenment | May 1st 2008 by Terry Anan
When I got to work this morning, I realized I'd forgotten my breakfast and lunch at home. I had to come back and get it. But some time after I got back to work, I then realized that my bag with all my important stuff in it was missing! I ran out to read more
Belletristik vs. Appell
LiteraTourSeite | May 1st 2008 by Ralph
„Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch?Damit es uns glü read more
To touch or not to
Divining the News | April 28th 2008 by morris108
How can Amma go around hugging everyone? She is world famous for this. She has so much love in her heart. She is admired very much, and of course she is from India where she has an Ashram. I spend half my time worrying about who I am running into. An read more
Kafka
Edenborough | April 14th 2008 by Neath
“It’s a peculiar apparatus,” said the Officer to the Traveler, gazing with a certain admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar. It appeared that the Traveler had responded to the invitation of the Commandant on read more
Schizophrenia and Control pt.1
The Schizo-Stroller | March 24th 2008
I’d like to start this post with a link to a text by Deleuze: Society of Control This text had me wondering on my own personal experience with schizophrenia, not so much due to Deleuze’s earlier work on schizophrenia, but on Deleuze’ read more
Una cita que me atrae y con la que estoy de acuerdo
La Movida Literaria | March 24th 2008
"Kafka, desde luego-me dice, volviendo a sonreír-. Sí, es cierto, muchos de nosotros sobrevivimos casi exclusivamente gracias a Kafka. Incluida la gente de la calle que jamás ha leído una sola palabra suya. Se miran unos a otros cuando ocurre alg read more
15 Fab Quotes for Writers...
On Creative Writing and Publishing | March 16th 2008
and those adrift in roiling seas:1. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill2. People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. – W. read more
The Fly: Futuristic Metamorphosis
This Winki's | March 6th 2008 by Pedram Mobedi
I first experienced David Cronenberg’s The Fly some ten years ago when I borrowed the VHS from a friend. I had no idea who David Cronenberg was, but I knew Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park and Independence Day. Now that I finally ordered the DVD a read more
Charla sobre Borges de Saramago y Kodama
El Taller Literario - Blog para escritores | March 1st 2008 by Damian
“Frente a la banalización de algunos, hay que volver a la filosofía, al pensamiento y al rigor más que nunca”, cree el escritor portugués, según apunta su esposa Pilar del Río, periodista y traductora de su obra. Por eso con esta ch read more
Ruh Ağrısı
Malifulle | February 24th 2008 by malifulle
“Ben olmaktan başka deneyebileceğim bir şey yok” [...] read more
Café KKK
Lago Epilético | February 22nd 2008 by LeFov
Ainda há os que são pegos desprevenidos:Rotina a pulular sob o concretoQue rossa nas antenas dos sentidosSorvendo toda cor em branco e pretoMas tu põe borboletas nos ouvidosDe quem Kafka em seu canto quietoRadiação que assovia sustenidosE a noit read more
White pebbles and burning issues
The Truth About Lies | February 16th 2008 by Jim Murdoch
I remember once, I'm not sure how old I was, wandering down a beach on the west of Scotland picking up pebbles. I was on a white pebble kick that day and dropped each brilliant specimen into my jacket pocket. When I got home I emptied them out onto t read more
Metamorphosis at the Lyric Theater
Hollie Golightly | January 30th 2008 by Hollie Rosenberg
(My homework was to write a review of a show - here it is -)Kafka’s Metamorphosis comes to life, like never seen before at the Lyric Theater. David Farr and Gishli Orn Gardarsson’s adaptation adds an over exaggerated element of physicality to the read more
Review - Percy Gloom
Shuffleboil | January 27th 2008 by John
Cathy Malkasian’s “Percy Gloom” takes the reader on a surreal and absurd trip that reveals new fantasy landscapes the melt with the old, creating something entirely original. It’s an archetypal tale we’ve all encountered thousan read more
Viajes de Franz Kafka
Qlibet | January 5th 2008 by rmc
Una magnífica página dedicada a ofrecer fotografías del checo Jan Jindra tomadas en los lugares visitados y vividos por Kafka. Cuenta con varios colaboradores, entre ellos uno de los mejores biógrafos del escritor, Reiner Satch.La foto que ofrece read more
“Only for questioning” and the disavowal of law
Rule of Lords | November 22nd 2007 by Awzar Thi
At a meeting in Singapore last week, Burma’s deputy defense minister iterated that persons taken into custody over the protests in his country of recent months had not been arrested but held “only for questioning.” Perhaps because read more
Fear of.... pretty much EVERYTHING
Random Lizard | November 16th 2007 by tarzoni
It's hard to admit how afraid I am. Of so many things. Of doing things (anything). Of not doing things--"losing out." I am afraid when someone doesn't like me: what are they seeing, my fatal flaw? I am afraid when people like me: how have I fooled th read more
The Arabic Translation Fandango Continues
Pig Sty Avenue | November 14th 2007
Reuters carried this report. AFP managed to get a couple of quotes from one those exotic creatures beneath the waves. I'm guessing, but I suspect that there is a pro- and anti-tourist battle going on in the hidden depths, and it's a battle in a war read more
Libya Needs its Own Kafka
Pig Sty Avenue | November 13th 2007
In the same inbox, I get a link to a story about the marvellous future for Libya's tourist industry, and another link to a tale of arsey immigration authorities, which "reflects confusion in government policies".Being a European involved with Libya i read more
Meine erste Antiquariatsmesse
ZVABlog - das offizielle Blog des ZVAB | November 12th 2007 by ZVAB
Mogwa - Antiquariat Ich vergesse nie die Panik in den Augen meines Antiquariatspartners Christof, immer wenn ich nach der Gründung unseres Abeceda-Antiquariats vom Flohmarkt in unseren Laden zurückkehrte. Breit grinsend und mit vollen Plas read more
Kafkaesque ASIO plots
Gianni Wise | November 12th 2007 by Gianni Wise
Terror case thrown out "This is reminiscent of Kafka," stated NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Adams in dismissing charges against an Indian student...Looks like ASIO is (becoming or is still) ASIO unaccountable. The problem with ASIO powers, partic read more
not funny
Enlightenment | November 10th 2007 by Terry Anan
Last week one of my coworkers lent me a book that included an essay about Franz Kafka. The essay is, annoyingly, mostly about the humor in his stories. While the humor is definitely there and even shows up a lot better in the new translations, I find read more
Der schönste erste deutsche Satz ist gekürt!
ZVABlog - das offizielle Blog des ZVAB | November 7th 2007 by ZVAB
Das lange gespannte Warten hat endlich ein Ende. “Ilsebill salzte nach” ist der schönste erste Satz eines deutschsprachigen Romans. Kurz und knapp beginnt Grass‘ Roman Der Butt aus dem Jahr 1977 und bewies: In der Kürze l read more
A dung beetle's guide to the universe
The Truth About Lies | November 1st 2007 by Jim Murdoch
One of the things that has concerned me for a while is the fact that very little of my work is easily classifiable. It certainly isn’t mainstream, but neither does it fit neatly into the big genres of, say, science fiction or crime fiction or even read more
enlightenment snob
Enlightenment | September 19th 2007 by Terry Anan
I fully realized after my gossip post that I still have elitist tendencies... the last comment I got on that post reminded me that, at times, I indulge in the same judgmental behavior as some others. I guess I nearly forgot that. This isn't new behav read more
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