473 A Hemingway Short Story (with Mark Cirino)
The History of Literature
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Kafka's 99 Surprises
Kafka was fun, but he cheated on his exams. He avidly followed the regime of a Danish exercise guru. He loved beer and biographies and slapstick. The New Yorker says this book is quote, a box of fancy Austro-Hungarian chocolates. So here's what we're going to do. I don't want to eat this box of chocolates all at once. Gorge myself and then offer you some recollections of how the chocolate tasted. Read it during our break. And then I'll come back. We live in our failures. Yes, failure. A private obsession that so many of us share. Failure, why failure? Why does that
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