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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2011-01-03 07:40 pm
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In Kafka you fail because of some awryness of your substance.

In Borges because your need to be God leads you to ignore the facts.

In Calvino because the world is remarkably complicated.

In Calvino you would succeed if the world were different. Lament.

In Borges if you tried to be a smaller god. Moderate.

In Kafka if you were different. Change.

Borges is an optimist in that we can easily attain a smaller paradise.

Calvino in that we are not to blame.

Kafka in that we're already in the paradise, true paradise, of someone else.

[identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
That's why for Kafka there's only one sin: impatience.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Before the Law" indicts patience too, in some readings. But perhaps just as another form of impatience.

[identity profile] grashupfer.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What is the conjunction of Kafka and a mirror?

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The Gatherer Akfak.