The Cork - A Very Sereal Place, Is It?

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Kay gets a telephone call that says it's going to take place the following sunday. He has no idea what room it is, or even if he's in the right place. Kay turned to the stairs to find the room for the inquiry and paused as he saw three different staircases in the courtyard. And yet, he kind of, he walks around, he, i guess he has some sense of where the court ya. How do you picture the actual area of the cork it does the outside, or just yer? Well, it's a lot yon the outside.

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)?