Subject: Re: "How can anyone from our generation..."
From: Dan Owens (lorena@computer-services.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 1997 - 21:06:57 GMT
mws4c@faraday.clas.virginia.edu wrote:
>
> Dan Owens wrote:
>
> > who's Kafka?
>
> kafka is the guy who tunes tori amos' piano and harpsichord.
> heehee! just kidding. he's one of the great authors of the 20th century,
> and has this rare ability to suck you into reading his entire
> novel in one sitting, from the first line. he wrote the metamorphosis
> ("one morning gregor samsa awoke to find that he had turned into a large
> brown bug"), the Trial ("someone must have been telling lies about K....")
> and the letter to his father ("Dear Father, you asked me once why i
> maintain that i am afraid of you."), a work that i can relate to probably
> the best out of any work of literature. i'm paraphrasing the above, of
> course - i really need to get a kafka anthology. you could say that
> salinger is kafka-esque in his ability to hold a reader's attention.
>
> i'm not really going to say anything about the whole generation thing, but
> after these past few weeks, i have only this to say about mr. kennis: love
> him or hate him (or more importantly, his ideas), you almost have to
> admire his pretty much abnormal dedication (especially for a college
> student, or anyone with a job) to this list. i'm starting to worry about
> you, andrew - i hope you're not losing sleep or missing classes on acount
> of email (cheesy smiley face, in US-ASCII characters)
>
> -mws (myron w. santos)
>
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> in the body of a message to "Majordomo@mass-usr.com".Well, is Kafka the only name he goes by? I can't find the guy ANYWHERE.
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