Just read, in Le Magazine Littraire, an interview with Reiner Stach, author of a biography of Kafka whose first tome was just published in Germany. Excerpt:
"...Kafka's letters readers often conclude he was neurotic. Why, for example, the relation he had with Felice Bauer was mostly an epistolary one? Felice lived in Berlin, he lived in Prag, why did he not phone her, was not it for avoiding anything resembling a physical contact, even an oral one? I answer: you need to know what meant "telephone" in 1912 Prag. To do an international call, you had to go to the main post office, fill a request form, wait in a waiting hall for 30 or 40 minutes, then you were called in another room and allowed to talk for only 3 minutes maximum. It makes Kafka's choice of writing letters much more understandable... "
"...Kafka's letters readers often conclude he was neurotic. Why, for example, the relation he had with Felice Bauer was mostly an epistolary one? Felice lived in Berlin, he lived in Prag, why did he not phone her, was not it for avoiding anything resembling a physical contact, even an oral one? I answer: you need to know what meant "telephone" in 1912 Prag. To do an international call, you had to go to the main post office, fill a request form, wait in a waiting hall for 30 or 40 minutes, then you were called in another room and allowed to talk for only 3 minutes maximum. It makes Kafka's choice of writing letters much more understandable... "
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Yo.
Thesis biographers, they always want to make it sound like they knew better than the people they biographize.
One of thesis books is called " When one does arrive "? and it's very very good. It's where thesis lines are from:
Who says filming says catering. Catering, modern version of the cantinire, as in to provide to the and to warn the. In the furnace of the Michigan septantrional, the Hollywood elite will endure a state of bewilderment of his/her/its intrapsychique I don't know what, and it will be incumbent us upon us that will receive it in our breast to produce the small supplementary effort that will succeed to a STB: Situation of Total Welcome.
--to a certain extent, yes. what we did wasn't exactly "catering" (altho that was part of it) every production had a caterer as well that provided two hot meals on location (on some of the lower budget pictures that caterer was off-site & delivered a few pre-made tins of entrees to the set via station wagon). we (to put it simply) picked up the slack for the rest of the time on the set. ideally, the craft service set-up should be a Situation of Total Welcome in that it's generally where the cast & crew converge to shoot the shit (when they're not getting smoked-up in the props truck, but ya didn't hear it from me)--altho realistically it's kind of a pain in the ass to try & be Rick's Cafe 12-16 hours a day, especially if you have to move every hour or two to be close to set but not In Shot, & I suppose we got a bit snarly & slack from time to time....
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I would never have believed that I would finish in a mini-market. When I went in a mini-market and that I saw the person behind the counter in his/her/its gloomy blouse, I told myself: it is necessary that she/it made something of pain, otherwise she/it would not be there. One can make something of pain, but maybe that one didn't make it intentionally. Or maybe that one made it intentionally but that that was the thing that was badly, not to make it; are The things badly only after one made them, to the bottom, then how is one supposed to know? It is that that there is good in America, people don't watch behind them.
--damn! that's beautiful, even in the somewhat mangled (but, to my eyes, strangely enhanced) syntax of the Machine. I've not yet heard of the writer you cited, but I'll surely keep an eye out for him--you're recommendation is more than good enough for me.
--rats
p.s. I translated the entire "member page" & noticed that in the top left corner it asked me to "select a showgirl!"