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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 12998274 times)

Helgoland

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84015 on: August 25, 2015, 06:09:24 pm »

My current romantic interest contacted me, two and a half after telling me she wanted to fix things with her boyfriend and that I should regard this as a clean break. Two and a half weeks after flying back home to another country to get some time and space to think.

She told me she finds Kafka hard to read.
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« Reply #84016 on: August 25, 2015, 06:14:21 pm »

If only you had known, you could've left her earlier. Kafka's clinically dry and official tone is half the charm, and if anything makes him more accessible!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84017 on: August 25, 2015, 06:16:14 pm »

... so is that some kind of strange european innuendo that doesn't translate well, or...?
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« Reply #84018 on: August 25, 2015, 06:17:55 pm »

do they not know kafka across the ocean

that's borderline uncivilized
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84019 on: August 25, 2015, 06:20:16 pm »

No, we know of kafka. I'm just not sure if europe knows kafka, you know, biblically or somethin'. Given the context, it could go either way.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84020 on: August 25, 2015, 06:22:46 pm »

I really want to make an innuendo here. But given the subject, that's a bad idea.
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« Reply #84021 on: August 25, 2015, 06:23:00 pm »

If only you had known, you could've left her earlier. Kafka's clinically dry and official tone is half the charm, and if anything makes him more accessible!
She's at ~2 pages per day, while I'm at ~1 page per day on Galeano's Libro de los abrazos, which has much less text per page... Then again she's lived in Germany for three years and attended a German school in Spain, while I have only my three mediocre years of school Spanish to rely on :D

She does like his writing, though. And she likes Brecht - she's the perfect woman, really. Now if only this whole thing would finally work out...

do they not know kafka across the ocean

that's uncivilized
FTFY. Kafka, Kafka oberhalb von allem, oberhalb von allem in der Welt! Vom Pazifik bis zum Pazifik, von NZ bis zum arktischen Schelf!

Edit: I like that use of the word 'biblically'. I truly do.
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« Reply #84022 on: August 25, 2015, 06:25:39 pm »

Grah stupid clever European people knowing languages well enough to read literature in them grnhar.

@Nax Perhaps this is the insight? That it's not much fun to be a beetle, so don't become one.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84023 on: August 25, 2015, 06:27:39 pm »

@NJW: Are you implying that you don't know any languages well enough to read literature in? Most people know at least one. Most could probably kind of struggle along with two, with the help of a dictionary.
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« Reply #84024 on: August 25, 2015, 06:29:31 pm »

They probably know Kafka on the shore, maybe he's a mystery further inland. Dry's a pretty good way to put him, actually. I kept expecting something insightful out of Metamorphosis, but nnnnnnope. Dude's just a beetle now.
Come on, that was a metaphor for his estrangement from his family! His otherness just physically manifested in him becoming a beetle, and the bad things that occur afterwards would have happened in a similar manner even if the transformation had not taken place. The whole point is that his family would have been better off without him even when he was still supporting them.

Do you know his story The Great Wall of China?
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« Reply #84025 on: August 25, 2015, 06:34:00 pm »

Well, I haven't got out of secondary school yet, but could read french very slowly with a dictionary and grammar textbook.

Most of my non-bilingual classmates are similar, but I'm jealous of people who can read in two languages, as I really want to, unlike most of my peers. :(

@Helgo/Nax: as far as I could tell (from his entire published work, which isn't most of it), all his stories have a metaphor for him/a writer. The beetle is both the estrangement and the growth of new traits within Kafka that make him feel confused/displaced and useless: his writing.
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« Reply #84026 on: August 25, 2015, 07:58:10 pm »

Crossposting from the happy thread.

Sounds like that story could end up being like that one poem that involved girls and goblin merchent men. Apparently the author was very religious and didn't intend it, but how could you write this without realising,
         
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« Reply #84027 on: August 25, 2015, 09:18:42 pm »

Combing other people's hair is surprisingly calming.
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« Reply #84028 on: August 25, 2015, 09:22:20 pm »

The number of people I've talked to today that think the "Karate Kid: Daniel is the real villain" video is both accurate and non-parodic is insane. All of them have seen the movie.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #84029 on: August 25, 2015, 09:24:42 pm »

The number of people I've talked to today that think the "Karate Kid: Daniel is the real villain" video is both accurate and non-parodic is insane. All of them have seen the movie.
Well thank goodness I didn't watch the movie.
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