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"Written identically but remove any explicit bug references that don't also apply to incel morphology"
"Tired of trying to feign being intelligent and cultured. idk who kafka, hollebequeec, nietzsche or scorseses are. no more talking about NATO, whoever they are. we are bimbomaxxing."
"I read an excerpt the other day from a book called The Third Reich of Dreams, which documents the dreams of ordinary German citizens under the Hitler years. Again, the imagery that the dreamers reported was spectacularly original and beautiful, like little Kafka parables."
"People would break up, be sad about it for a little while and then eventually get over it or become some weird romantically repressed author à la franz Kafka."
"they found out that he was an avid prostitute fucker and also a gooner and are now accusing him of being a rapist"
"Hello miss johnson in this book report i will be analising the book The Metamophisis by Franz Kafka. I liked this book it was very good."
"we followed each other on goodreads and it was the colleen hoover / kafka dostoyevsky reader dynamic (not to sound insufferable)."
"Something about the combination of Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus and Kierkegaard is usually an indicator. They also tend to really covet books as objects/commodities and have surface level ways of dismissing authors which they've never read (Freud bad, Hemingway misogynist, etc)."
"Kafka was pretty fine as a young man, Anais Nin was cute, Clarice Lispector was gorgeous, who else?"
"Baroque, Art Nouveau, brutalism, former East Bloc kitsch, Slavs, Kafka, meth, Czech New Wave kino, highbrow fashionable reputation. It's got it all."
"a kafkaesque nightmare of talking to preprogrammed messages with no insight or understanding for you as a person only to be churned out with an unwanted zoloft prescription in hand. truly one of the more soulless facets of modern medicine."
"The pleasures of Kafka, the pleasures of the nightmare in Kafka, then come from the way in which the archaic livens up routine and boredom, and an old-fashioned juridical and bureaucratic paranoia enters the empty workweek of the corporate age and makes something at least happen!"
"This sounds like a Kafka bug nightmare joke but it's literally true and making me insane. The machine is obsessed with psychoanalysis."
"I swear some people here act like every zoomer is reading Kafka because of tiktok"
"Kafkan, or if you wish, 'bleak.'"
"I recommend the unhappiness of being a single man by kafka. it's a short story collection and is one of my favorite things I've read I the past few years"
"been taking in a lot of kafka pynchon and now spinoza mainly with the intent of becoming better reader. never before have words alone brought me to tears"
"More knowledgeable readers than myself here told me that apparently Nabokov denied any influence from Kafka at all, which is hard to believe."
"The Emperor—so they say—has sent a message, directly from his death bed, to you alone, his pathetic subject, a tiny shadow which has taken refuge at the furthest distance from the imperial sun. He ordered the herald to kneel down beside his bed and whispered the message in his ear."
"He had hardly left the room when Frieda turned off the electric light and joined K. under the bar. 'My darling! My sweet darling!' she whispered, but she did not touch K. She lay on her back as if swooning with desire, and spread her arms wide. Time must have seemed endless to her in her amorous bli"
"I don't even know what else to do with this observation"
""And I could never understand why you were insensitive to the sorrow and shame you inflicted on me with your words and judgements – it was as if you didn't sense your own power. And I certainly made you ill with words; but I knew what I was doing, though it hurt me, but I couldn't control myself, I "
"Here's a paragraph on Kafka I think about often"
"This sounds like a Kafka bug nightmare joke but it's literally true and making me insane."
"I recommend the unhappiness of being a single man by kafka. it's a short story collection and is one of my favorite things I've read I the past few years"
"apparently Nabokov denied any influence from Kafka at all, which is hard to believe"
"The Emperor—so they say—has sent a message, directly from his death bed, to you alone, his pathetic subject"
"He had hardly left the room when Frieda turned off the electric light and joined K. under the bar. 'My darling! My sweet darling!' she whispered, but she did not touch K."
"Since we all seem to love socio-sexually dysfunctional artists, thought I'd share a delirious rant from the late Franz Kafka, misogynist laureate and perma-virgin supreme."
"The other day I was shopping at a used bookstore when I overheard two girls around my age talking about The Trial by Franz Kafka. I'd read The Metamorphosis (also by the same author) somewhat recently"