Comments | johnnybadhair: my beautiful sickness

johnnybadhair

my beautiful sickness

Jan 03, 2006 09:54

"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, write ( Read more... )

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villalobos108 January 3 2006, 18:01:27 UTC

I love this quote 1000%.

johnnybadhair January 4 2006, 00:05:12 UTC

i'm a big fan of Kafka but had never seen this quote until today and i was like 'woah'.

tom_o_bedlam January 3 2006, 23:30:43 UTC

no no no no no no no!

well, sometimes.

johnnybadhair January 4 2006, 00:02:24 UTC

i don't agree with it 100% but there's a real truth there that struck a chord with me.

johnnybadhair January 4 2006, 00:03:49 UTC

oh, and only a couple days after we talk about the "Dead Man's Hand" tattoo and you leave, i meet a girl with a "memneto mori" tattoo on her back.

von_doom January 4 2006, 13:49:53 UTC

I hope she spelled it right.

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sa_uuuul January 6 2006, 02:57:51 UTC

Yeah, not all learning is painful. But I do love Kafka.

Solaris 2890 January 7 2006, 08:22:20 UTC

I just finished reading Solaris by Stanislav Lem. I'm glad I haven't seen either of the movies, yet.

Have you read it?

6sixofswords6 January 9 2006, 20:56:06 UTC

Gotta love that Kafka!