that...interesting...baseball game - what was that about, anyway? - OMG the baseball! Set to Muse' Supermassive Black Hole, no less! "Look! We are epic! Really!" indeed :)
Ooooh, Fremdschämen is a perfect word, as something I suffer from a lot when watching over-the-top slap-stick comedy. I just sit there and cringe...
As for Kafka, I guess I just wasn't prepared for his "nothing happens and yet everything get worse" patterns. Even with The Metamorphosis, not a lot actually happens, in the grand scheme of things. But I think that if I sat down and went all thinky about The Trial and its symbolisms and whatnot, I'd like it more. Like how people say The Old Man and the Sea is amazing if you analyze it (but which I think sucks if you just read it as a book). But there were bits I liked in The Trial very much - the last story about the man at the gate, like I said, and also when K.'s reenacting his first hearing to the woman, and when he meets the wife of a lawyer or clerk and she tells him how everyone always uses her - even taking her off to sleep with judges - and her husband can't do a thing about it.
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Date: 2011-02-03 07:55 pm (UTC)Ooooh, Fremdschämen is a perfect word, as something I suffer from a lot when watching over-the-top slap-stick comedy. I just sit there and cringe...
As for Kafka, I guess I just wasn't prepared for his "nothing happens and yet everything get worse" patterns. Even with The Metamorphosis, not a lot actually happens, in the grand scheme of things. But I think that if I sat down and went all thinky about The Trial and its symbolisms and whatnot, I'd like it more. Like how people say The Old Man and the Sea is amazing if you analyze it (but which I think sucks if you just read it as a book). But there were bits I liked in The Trial very much - the last story about the man at the gate, like I said, and also when K.'s reenacting his first hearing to the woman, and when he meets the wife of a lawyer or clerk and she tells him how everyone always uses her - even taking her off to sleep with judges - and her husband can't do a thing about it.
*does secret icon-twin handshake*
♥!