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The state's rules on how students such as Stach are supposed to fulfill the physical education credit are so vague most districts come up with their own plans, with varying degrees of success.

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Stach says all of this had "a profound effect on [his] palate," and taught him "to focus on how things taste and feel in the mouth."

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The World within the Word contains another review of a biography, this one Joseph Blotner's 2-volume bio of Faulkner, a book Gass likes far less than he does the Stach bio of Kafka, and he employs an amusing conceit with that one as well -- a character named "Mr. Feaster" whom he occasionally stops to offer a biography of along the way.

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It is a quest Kafka struggled with, Stach chronicled, Gass embodied, and few of us escape.

Kafka Gass 2006

Gass-as-the-ghost-of-Kafka's-metaphors shows how and why Stach's biography is so much more than the standard bio, how it is so often itself a work of art, and yet he does this within his own art, maintaining the ridiculously sublime conceit of the narrator, getting away with it by embracing the complexities it offers, making the essay about not only Kafka or Stach, but the impossible quest to know the self.

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Gass-as-the-ghost-of-Kafka's-metaphors shows how and why Stach's biography is so much more than the standard bio, how it is so often itself a work of art, and yet he does this within his own art, maintaining the ridiculously sublime conceit of the narrator, getting away with it by embracing the complexities it offers, making the essay about not only Kafka or Stach, but the impossible quest to know the self.

Kafka Gass 2006

It is a quest Kafka struggled with, Stach chronicled, Gass embodied, and few of us escape.

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And maybe Stach doesn't speculate a la Roth because, frankly, Roth's speculations are, well, just damned silly.

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But Stach never tells us that Margarethe - usually shortened to Grete of Gretchen - is also the name of the naive girl seduced by Faust after he makes his pact with Mephistopheles in Goethe's play.

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Maybe Stach didn't make the observation about Margarethe's name because it was so shockingly obvious as to not require underscoring.

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