Kafkaesque

[Harry the K]

That's cheating. ;o)

I thought it was the key to understanding, someone said.

 

[Freakscene]

 

[Freakscene]

I thought it was the key to understanding, someone said.

Take it to Footnote if you have anything revelatory. Otherwise show us your photos.

 

[Harry the K]

Take it to Footnote if you have anything revelatory. Otherwise show us your photos.

Excuse, me, I didn´t want to go on your nerves.
So, especially for you, my Sunday Edition of The Castle:

 

[lynnb]

Sydney Metro. #1145. Cross posted from the digital black and white thread.
iPhone 15 Pro

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[Freakscene]

Excuse, me, I didn´t want to go on your nerves.
So, especially for you, my Sunday Edition of The Castle:

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Is it the Schloss Neuburg? Very nice.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

 

[raphaellehnen]

boston, 2024. leica m-a 35mm summicron v3, 5222 on rodinal 1:50.

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (elmar 50mm f3.5) leica 1a

Utrecht, 2019

 

[Erik van Straten]

gelatin silver print (summilux 50mm f1.4 v2) leica m3

W.F. Hermans, famous Dutch author and admirer of Kafka, at home in Paris, 1986.

 

[chuckroast]

No contradiction here. I did not talk about socioeconomics but about linguistics, the language of Kafka´s "The Castle". I´m sure he choose the diction, the code, of his writings deliberately, but he choose the slang he knew from his work, a slang I don´t like.
I mean, what do you prefer: Two hours at your dentist´s or discussing insurance specifics with your insurance agent? Neither, right?

Read a modern academic journal in the humanities or social "sciences" and your local insurance peddler's prose will seem like Keats by comparison. cf The Sokal Hoax

But what do I know. I like Robert Service and a good limerick.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Read a modern academic journal in the humanities or social "sciences" and your local insurance peddler's prose will seem like Keats by comparison. cf The Sokal Hoax

But what do I know. I like Robert Service and a good limerick.

There once was a writer named Franz
Kafka, who some think a schwanz.
If not the best ever,
he's still sometimes clever,
though he sometimes elicits some yawns.

 

[boojum]

he Sokal Hoax

There once was a writer named Franz
Kafka, who some think a schwanz.
If not the best ever,
he's still sometimes clever,
though he sometimes elicits some yawns.

You do know that limericks are almost as bad as puns, don;lt you? ;o)

 

[Retro-Grouch]

You do know that limericks are almost as bad as puns, don;lt you? ;o)

Just trying to oblige chuckroast. But "bad" for what?

 

[chuckroast]

There once was a writer named Franz
Kafka, who some think a schwanz.
If not the best ever,
he's still sometimes clever,
though he sometimes elicits some yawns.

There once was a photog named Retro
Who's manner and style where quite Metro
Whether film or with bits
He works gave us fits
Cuz he only used cameras of Lego

Thre was a young shooter named Clyde
Who fell in an outhouse and died
Along came his brother
And fell in another
And now they're in turd side-by-side

(I am a poet to my toes - my feet are longfellows)

 

[Freakscene]

This is definitely Kafkaesque in the sense that it is strange and torturous.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

This is definitely Kafkaesque in the sense that it is strange and torturous.

Hey, you started this whole thing! Or should I say, you unleashed it upon the world...

 

[Freakscene]

Hey, you started this whole thing! Or should I say, you unleashed it upon the world...

What part of:

Kafkaesque [kafkə(r)ˈɛsk] adjective
1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.
2. Like the world Kafka invented; recognisable but unreal, precisely detailed and dreamlike
Post your Kafkaesque photos here.

hinted at horrific amateurish limericks?

Except, you know, it happened?

 

[Retro-Grouch]

What part of:

Kafkaesque [kafkə(r)ˈɛsk] adjective
1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.
2. Like the world Kafka invented; recognisable but unreal, precisely detailed and dreamlike
Post your Kafkaesque photos here.

hinted at horrific amateurish limericks?

Except, you know, it happened?

I think "oppressive or nightmarish" covers it.

 

[Freakscene]

We call this world “Kafkaesque”, of course, while keeping mindful of Italo Calvino’s lament that one hears that term “every quarter of an hour, applied indiscriminately”.