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Franz Kafka

To Make Bach the Grund of Grundrisse and the Chaconne of a Shocked Shack

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Today I thought I should add my secret voice to your evaluations.
Your intelligence may be genius, but remember as my mother saids also always to be nice.
A seventh grade teacher consoled me when I was teased:
You can always tell the genius by the enemies who surround him.

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A Cuban Sandwich and Levinas

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Suppose you are reading Levinas, having a nice Cuban sandwich, minding your business, thinking about the self, the other, the other self, the otherness of self, the selfishness of other, etc, etc, and the sun slants across the legs of a woman you pretend to have a deep rapport with—striping them apricot. What do you do?

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12 February 2010

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I am happy to be posting on an even-numbered day in an even-numbered month in an even-numbered year. Give It Up! It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, I was on my way to the station. As I compared the tower clock with my watch I realized it was much [...]

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