Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Absurdity of Negotiation
I think it's not especially American, unless there's some underlying motive for it. I thought perhaps this isn't absurd. Perhaps this man is trying to teach the farmer how he should treat his wife. Ask her nicely. Don't tell her what to do. Give her meat every day. If he was training him to become a good husband. But that might be pushing it a little far.
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