Gregors sister is not the saint that you might have thought she was up until this point. She gets kind of stubborn about it. And sheep, by the way, she notices, not because he crawls around in her presence, she notices the little trails,. At first he's all for that, and then the mother comes in to help her, cause she can't do it all on her own. This is what you would do if it was a bug, if you were talking about a bug. But not what you were doing if you thought, you knowike that this person is retaining ties to being a human.
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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