What's That Supposed To Be?

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Cimmerian wrote:Franz Kafka

http://images.google.com/images?q=kafka
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He don't look how I pictured him...
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boudicca wrote:He don't look how I pictured him...
It isn't important how he looks. Read him. :notworthy:
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Most English people don't get Franz Kafka. They read metamorphosis and focus on the whole bug aspect of the book, when in fact he isn't a bug. English translators render the word Ungeziefer as meaning insect. Ungeziefer literally means "vermin" and is sometimes used to mean "bug". Translators got carried away with the whole bug thing when infact Gregor Samsa is just some gigantic hideous vermin.
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nick the stripper wrote:Translators got carried away with the whole bug thing when infact Gregor Samsa is just some gigantic hideous vermin.
Bit like Kilroy... :lol: :innocent:
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I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.

Pretentious? Moi?
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markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.

Pretentious? Moi?
heheh. was that that before or after camus' "the stranger"?

yeah yeah yeah. we've all been there. ;D

so how far did you get with hesse's "Das Glasperlenspiel"? :lol: :innocent:
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markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.

Pretentious? Moi?
Camus, The Outsider, 15.

BEAT THAT SMARTARSE! :lol: :P :innocent:
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Oh and Octave Mirbeau, "The Torture Garden", when I was 13.

Didn't get half of it... but still, points for pretentiousness, I think! :lol:
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markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.
I listened to Pink Floyd's version at about 12, does that count? :innocent:

Ok, I'll get me "uncultured little swine" coat...;)
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When I was 17 I was listening to the Dead Can Dance version... :innocent:

"All my senses rebel"...

Bangin' choon. Oh yes. :notworthy:
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boudicca wrote:
markfiend wrote:I first read Kafka's The Trial when I was 17.

Pretentious? Moi?
Camus, The Outsider, 15.

BEAT THAT SMARTARSE! :lol: :P :innocent:
In French? :innocent:

Kidding.

Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
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boudicca wrote:When I was 17 I was listening to the Dead Can Dance version... :innocent:

"All my senses rebel"...

Bangin' choon. Oh yes. :notworthy:
Bangin' choon?

You still under the influence of swirly avatars? :lol:
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Motz wrote:Bangin' choon?

You still under the influence of swirly avatars? :lol:
I'm 'avin it large to This Mortal Coil as we speak! :lol:
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markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
but you own a copy, right? ;D :wink:

if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it :lol:
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markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
but you own a copy, right? ;D :wink:

if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it :lol:
No I don't as it happens. :lol: Go on then, give us a lend of it ;D
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markfiend wrote:
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markfiend wrote:Never even started Das Glasperlenspiel to be honest.
but you own a copy, right? ;D :wink:

if not you can borrow mine. i've never even opened it :lol:
No I don't as it happens. :lol: Go on then, give us a lend of it ;D
i'll bring it on tuesday. lets see if we can get von to sign it ;D :lol:

its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne :urff: :D
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I'll probably lose it on the way home...
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Quiff Boy wrote:
its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne :urff: :D
Is it thick enough to give a short arse a lift - I ALWAYS get stood behind Mr Tallbloke and his ridiculously long-legged gf....
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markfiend wrote:I'll probably lose it on the way home...
Just drink a bit, then you'll lose the way home before it gets an opportunity to steal the book 8)
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Debaser wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:
its a whopper by the way. weighs a bloody tonne :urff: :D
Is it thick enough to give a short arse a lift - I ALWAYS get stood behind Mr Tallbloke and his ridiculously long-legged gf....
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between the ages of 17 and 19 I did nothing but read Michael Moorcock, listen to Hawkwind and get banjo'd on weed. Then I went to art school and Punk Rock happened...
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James Blast wrote:between the ages of 17 and 19 I did nothing but read Michael Moorcock, listen to Hawkwind and get banjo'd on weed. Then I went to art school and Punk Rock happened...
I still have a very soft spot for Hawkwind :notworthy: Spent many a bombed night listening to them - they helped a trip no end :lol: :lol:

(read Moorcock too - hippy goth that I was :lol: :lol: - and probably still am :lol: )
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Black Alice wrote:- hippy goth that I was :lol: :lol: -
Ah, so that's why you can't stand anything on your feet :lol: :P
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Black Alice wrote:- hippy goth that I was :lol: :lol: -
Ah, so that's why you can't stand anything on your feet :lol: :P
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(and apparently I look like Sandy Shaw (don't ask :oops: ) :lol: :lol: )
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