kafka

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Haven't blogged in a while, so going to shake the rust out of the engine with a little dark humor (side note: when I joined Salon back in the day, I named our first server "kafka").

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  1. Franz Kafka, a writer, b. 1883, d. 1924.

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  1. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)

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  • Haven't blogged in a while, so going to shake the rust out of the engine with a little dark humor (side note: when I joined Salon back in the day, I named our first server "kafka"). —  Chad Dickerson
  • The point is even more obvious with less gifted writers than kafka, such as Proust, Tolstoy, or Flaubert. —  Wet Asphalt
  • October 9th, 2008 at 11: 06 am where do you draw the line? it is a brave thing you have done here, you must have expected a lot of abuse for it. you still have a couple of years to go before you are 30, so can i suggest everything jack kerouac, william s burroughs, franz kafka, charles bukowski, john fante, knut hamsun, aldous huxley, roald dahl, kahlil gibran and His Holiness the Dalai Lama ever wrote. there you go, a list of ten authors to read before you are 30. oh, and the velveteen rabbit. do you get paid for writing this? can i get a job? —  Conflict Zen
  • I know we´ll be in morocco, but for some reason i have a pre-conceived notion that the food there is like chicken curry or mala kafka ... fingers crossed. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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