Posted by sigismund on September 12, 2011, at 17:53:56
I have always been interested in Walter Benjamin and Kafka and wanted to read them. In this Guy Davenport essay I was reminded that Gregor Samsa is more properly turned into vermin, rather than an insect, as is normally rendered, and you know, about how Kafka was a seer and a prophet (I would say).
But the quote that grabbed me was this from Benjamin.....
My boat is rudderless, it is driven by the wind that blows in the deepest regions of death.
(Good quote for my funeral. Should improve the overall intellectual average.)
I must make the bloody effort and read these people.
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