.........REDUCE THEM TO SILENCE IN MY JAWS........

[yamazaru]

I've been making the mistake(?) of reading Kafka lately....I hadn't read him since years back and forgot how feverish and claustrophobic some of his writing can be- when he's not setting up a dreamlike parable landscape but decides to burrow into some narrator's skull like Dostoevsky also loves to do........I was reading "The Burrow" and had to

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[theotherjoey]

you know, liktely i've been experiencing something very similar, only without any obvious trigger. my life is dull, small, and ditant, except here in this little tiny world of my family and journal.

and i've been drinking green tea by the liter.

[yamazaru]

The cold wall I continually bang up against is the fact that most of our troubles are probably of perception and perspective....that's to say, it usually turns out to be the case, even though I think each time that it's different and some fundamental lack or problem has been revealed, something that will require, shall we say, "radical surgery"......it's the confusion that kills, isn't it...
...dull small and distant is pretty damn apt though.....maybe we need more tea??

[thewhimmed]

and after all that, i'm still not sure if it's a recommendation...

[yamazaru]

That really depends on your mindset...If like me, you need and enjoy a large amount of vigorous boldness-stylization-superficiality-simplicity in your life and reading, then I'd say Franz's intimate psychological ramblings are best taken in small, strong doses...........Some folks just seem to be able to revel in the contorted multi-multi-multi-layeredness of thought like that on a daily basis and still remain functional, but it tends to debilitate like me if I overdo it.....I guess Nietszche would approvingly say I was a lover of masks......

However, if ya can get a hold of a collection of his VERY short stories and fragments("The Burrow" is considered one of his longish stories at a whopping 30pages, hehheh...) I definitely recommend 'em...surreal and dreamlike and...well...almost therapeutic............

[thewhimmed]

well, i don't get the bold style simplicity in my life, so for the time being, i definately prefer it in my books.

actually the thing i read most often and enjoy most is my friends list. that's a nice thing to know - all these people out there living thier lives for me in some small way, yet being real enough to not be fiction.

will catalogue the kafka in the brain for future used book store meanderings.