refusal of the food that life offers / looking out of windows / ability to enjoy a woman's presence in her absence

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I was reading 'Kafka: A Biography' by Ronald Hayman. Here is a list of some of the topics listed as subcategories under 'Kafka, Franz' in the index. Can this be beaten? Please list index subjects!

ability to enjoy a woman's presence in her absence
amoeba-like self-division
compulsion to inflict inflict pain on himself
compulsion to think badly of himself
cultivates comic detachment from his own words
desire for company disappears when gratified
detachment and objectivity in writing insurance reports
dissatisfaction with his body
distils abjection into allegory
fantasy of being summoned to live with the King
fear of being over-cautious
feeling of being dirty
feelings of being plural
feelings of near disintegration
has systematically destroyed himself
identifies with insects and animals
inability to remember pleasant experiences
incestuous cravings
inclination to welcome disease
indecision
indifference to practical usefulness
lack of inner freedom
looking out of windows
masochistically greedy window-shopping
moments of feeling brilliant and bullet-proof
on the uselessness of intimate letter-writing
pleasure in identification with the dying
questions whether he is entitled to stay alive
refusal of the food that life offers
reluctance to change clothes
sees humanity as a nihilistic hope in God's head
self-dislike
self-torture
sense of being a prisoner in his parents' flat
tormented by noises
uncertainty of right to occupy space
writing and the illusion of human intercourse
writing as deliberately protracted farewell to his father

Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

These are lyrics and/or song titles from the next Radiohead album, right?

snoball, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

I DON'T NEED A YEAR'S SUPPLY OF NEW USERNAMES, BUT THANKS ANYWAY!

cabernet slobodan (unregistered), Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

did you type all of those out

straight b*tch (harbl), Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

I did type them all out, but for an email to a friend, then copied them here. I would not go so far for ILX alone.

Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

writing posting on an internet message board and the illusion of human intercourse

snoball, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

"these are all future burt_stanton posts" ftw.

and poll this shit, obv.

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

Actually, wait, this one is a Pet Shop Boys song...

"fantasy of being summoned to live with the King"

snoball, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

Many of these would make a good single line in a Meshuggah track.

moley, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

poll

s1ocki, Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

excellent thread

EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

incestuous cravings ftw

forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)

fantasy of being summoned to live with the King ftw

Clay, Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

From Ellmann's Joyce biog:

Eyesight
at Clongowes, 28
J refuses to wear glasses, 64
J gets strong prescription, 192
acute attack in Trieste, 268, 308
in Zurich, 412-13, 454, 498
in Paris, 512, 517, 535-8
first operation (iridectomy) 417
five-week iritis diablement, 517, 537-8
operations for, 536, 537, 540, 566, 568-74
Dr. Morax consulted, 535
and Dr. Berman, 536, 657-8, 659, 663-4, 669
London consultation, 537
and three London ophthalmologists, 537
Dr. Borsch advises sphincterectomy, 536
dental extractions, 536, 543, 569-70
leeches and dionine treatment, 538
dental extractions advised, 543
fifth operation, 566
sixth operation (capsulotomy), 568-9
J undeterred by trouble with, 569-74, 613, 664, 669n
seventh operation, 570-71
eighth and ninth operations, 572-4
left eye quite blind, 574
new collapse, 603
J breaks glasses, 592
pilocarpin treatment, 607
J's style and method unconnected with, 613n, 716n
sight worsens, 613, 621-3
J's promotion of Sullivan and, 621-2
Lucia's strabismus, 622
Vogt consulted, 622, 627-8, 657, 658, 659, 663
sight improves, 623-5
J skips examinations, 657
tenth operation (capsulotomy), 623
eleventh operation, cataract on right eye, 623
right eye deteriorates, 657-8
Vogt's diagnoses, 623, 657-8, 663-4, 669, 707
Hemingway's anecdote about, 695n
J only half-blind, 623, 707, 716n.

anatol_merklich, Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

kafka is actually scarey
kafka is alive and well
kafka is a wysiwyg
kafka is a wysiwyg html editor
kafka is obviously a pseudonym
kafka is still read
kafka is a dutch name
kafka is here
kafka is internationally known
kafka is a rorschach test
kafka is now world famous and not reduced to ashes as he wished by hiding his books
kafka is a mechanical man without a heart
kafka is alive and well in post
kafka is well
kafka is another nice
kafka is saying
kafka is a fish out
kafka is stone
kafka is the edgar allen poe for the
kafka is coming
kafka is the most depressed son of prague
kafka is born in prague
kafka is 5 1/2 years old in the
kafka is still very early on but wysiwyg seems to be pretty much it's pull right now
kafka is sincere in his request but in any event brod ignores the request
kafka is exploring here
kafka is also full of marvelous performances with irons
kafka is always
kafka is the most easily
kafka is your man
kafka is a rather ingenious film that is not a biography of kafka the writer
kafka is too easily typecasted
kafka is certainly far too flattened
kafka is funny
kafka is an extensible style language
kafka is more than the usual summer camp
kafka is still a clerk
kafka is the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relationship to our age as dante
kafka is of course max brod
kafka is the daughter of spotzycat popcorn
kafka is glaring at me
kafka is with the trial
kafka is saying is that tragedies are what brings things out in the open
kafka is one of the most significant people this city has produced
kafka is one of the greatest and most widely read and discussed authors of the twentieth century
kafka is not
kafka is
kafka is considered one of the century's major literary forces
kafka is respect
kafka is trying to say that we shouldn?t work like bugs for others leaving out time for ourselves as gregor had but instead work for
kafka is not the greatest short story writer in history but the greatest analyst of trying to write who ever lived
kafka is in berlin
kafka is czech
kafka is not the only writer to be alienated by the modern world and estranged from the sublime
kafka is perhaps the most influential of 20th
kafka is not the exreaordinary genius that people today see him as
kafka is just my highly artistic
kafka is made to stand trial for perjury
kafka is extremely concerned with man's struggle for survival in the modern world
kafka is benoemd tot regional vice president van silica
kafka is joining silica and assured that he will enjoy the
kafka is an associate in corporate department in mcdermott
kafka is an absolute master with words
kafka is a deeply committed sign
kafka is most synonymous with monstrous images ? "the metamorphosis" 's cockroach
kafka is onverfilmbaar
kafka is an agent library designed for constructing multi
kafka is taken on an imaginary journey through the afterlife by lowy and must come to terms with his need to be part of something greater than himself while
kafka is talking to himself in muted undertones
kafka is miserable
kafka is annoyed to find that brod never did burn the books and
kafka is a partner in the firm of mckee nelson llp
kafka is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
kafka is called to the morgue by police inspector grubach
kafka is located at a 10 minutes walk from the centre in a quiet spot
kafka is a little confusing
kafka is known for his bizarre stories that often involve characters that seem to behave irrationally
kafka is the result of that work
kafka is a dual processor pentium
kafka is now spreading that joy in her 450
kafka is like the lad who set out to learn what fear was
kafka is interested in talking about "moral attitudes" why doesn't he simply tell us what those attitudes are and why we should be interested in them?
kafka is strictly a prose writer
kafka is poking about into the deepest
kafka is one of my favorite writers
kafka is seeing the dark side of the scenery but because he uses shadow to give the scenery depth
kafka is also critical of the way the modern world and pursuit of financial security turns people into metaphorical insects; we scamper about performing
kafka is always on the stage as the story evolves
kafka is out
kafka is one of the
kafka is among the most neurotic of literary artists goes without saying
kafka is joining silica and assured that he will enjoy the same level
kafka is one of the most representative writers of the 1900s
kafka is writing from
kafka is a new thinker

forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)


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