Re: "Excellent"

Hi Kim,

I don't think I have a take on Rilke. I have always gotten a certain amount
(of pleasure, of thought, of experience, of style) out of his stuff; but I
have never become passionate about it and I've never taught it. I like his work.
 But I don't know his work well enough to say anything too intelligent about
it. He is, to paraphrase an old comic routine, a poet who makes me go "hmmmm."

As far as I know, we now have all of the available Kafka texts translated.
This is not to say we have all the Kafka texts that exist, of course, since it
is very possible that there are some which have not been made available or
which remain lying undiscovered somewhere. I do know about the editing
controversies (I have never been happy with the chapter ordering in the Trial and have
been one of those who have argued that the execution scene is a mid-narrative
dream sequence -- and I think the drawings support this.... etc.). But these
are separate issues. Once I have the book, whichever book, in front of me --
the bound pages -- that is what I am reading. And I do love those particular
bound pages.

It's early morning, and thanks to a preventative couple of pills before the
drinking last night, I am wide awake and hangover free. The right meds are
indeed a wonderful thing. :)

Have a fine day, everyone,

--John

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Received on Fri Jun 27 06:39:09 2003