Gerald sees his father, a changed man. His once dishevelled white hair had been painstakingly combed and parted until it gleamed. He was dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons of the sort worn by porters in banking establishments above the jackets, tail, tall, stiff collar. The mother is sobbing and weeping, and the the daughter is trying to comfort her,. And then the dad comes home looking like this. Nowge suggest a dread for this is again, the dread of of somebody who's very familiar with a father would come home and put a whooping to shid.
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What kind of a story is this? A Marxist or religious allegory? A work of weird fiction? A family drama? A dark comedy? Why does a story about a man who turns into a giant insect get under our skins so much?
Plus a study that links insomnia to our fear of death. What a cheerful summer episode! (Actually we're fairly proud of this one... As always we suggest reading the text before you listen or soon after).
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