The Landlady and Fraulein Bersner

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Lukiatis and the landlady are having a conversation about fraulein bersner. There's some allusion made about how young women shouldn't be single. When she shuns his advances, he kind of says like, well, whi are you home so late? I no. So he immediately accuses her in just the way that he was so mad that theLandlady was ye for in setty with her.

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

Plus – Social Psychologists for Peace send an open letter to Vladimir Putin urging him to reverse course on the tragic invasion of Ukraine. Putin seems intent on toppling the Ukranian government but has he considered Sherif et al (1961), Tajfel (1977), Festinger (1954), and Brewer (1991)?