folly

for some time, a romantic era dwelt

mousewifegames on

youtube, twitter, & itch.io
|
I'll Be Pod for Castmas
|
follypersist most places on the internet but especially dreamwidth


folly
@folly

The Mystery of the Seven Keys being set in prague, and the unending medical bureaucracy i continue to wrestle with every forty-eight hours, together have me thinking a lot about Kafka.


folly
@folly

Borges, of course, gives us Kafka and his Precursors, a view on history that emphasizes the direction in which history is viewed—that is, from the present. Kafka's existence means in those writers preceding him we can find veins of absurdism; the word kafkaesque creates this highlight, causing new things to exist in works that have not changed. All writers work this way, all sequential authorships instilling meaning in retrograde. the torment nexus may be created because it was first conceived; but we remember its conception because of its creation. in this way, our world being absurdist makes kafka meaningful; in a world where the nightmare is not real, kafka ceases to be remembered


You must log in to comment.

in reply to @folly's post:

one way—though not the only—is to obsessively read the same texts (that first resonated with you) over and over again until they suffuse into your being, into the words you make, first in your heart and then in your mouth and fingers, and finally in your mind, recirculating and synthesizing into ideas and analysis