Re: [-empyre-] the symbolic and the real: Kafka

[Christina McPhee <christinamcphee@yahoo.com>]

henry wrote: 

 R is just very
> "strange". (It has a set
> of features and some of those features can't be
> known, and everything sits
> in that space between known features and unknown
> features, with unknowable
> features forming a kind of black box. The
> appearance, arrangement,
> configuration and composition of these features are
> variable and complex,
> the complexity permitting the emotive response of
> "strange")


Kafka writes that K finds himself in eine Fremde, a
strange land in which he can breathe, even if for a
period of hours (The Castle)  
[2] Kafka, F., Underwood, J. A., transl.,1997, The
Castle. London: Penguin Books,  p. 38. ?Then she
started up, K. having remained lost in thought, and
began to tug at him like a child: ?Come, it?s
suffocating under here,? they embraced, the little
body burning in K.?s hands, in a state of oblivion
from which K. tried repeatedly yet vainly to extricate
himself they rolled several steps, thudded into
Klamm?s door, then lay in the little puddles of beer
and the rest of the rubbish covering the floor. There
hours passed, hours of breathing as one, heart beating
as one, hours in which K. constantly had the feeling
that he had lost his way or wandered farther into a
strange land, than anyone before him, a strange land
where even the air held no trace of the air at home,
where a man must suffocate from the strangeness yet
into whose foolish enticements he could do nothing but
plunge, on, getting even more lost.? 

cm



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