The Living Room Furniture

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The law just bleeds into teinto everylielike we'll get another example of that in the flogging chapter. It seems like the law's just, it's intertwined in them, like the red room and twin peaks. So she says, we live here rent free, but we have to move our furniture out on days when the court is in session. And again, loke absurd, like a dream yhow is it ot the living roomli,. How could it fit all those people and now be a living?

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)?