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*Note: Based on the Breon Mitchell translation. Includes spoilers. This book felt like a David Lynch film. A vague premise, unclear consequences, and transient characters that exist only to move the strange, disjointed narrative forward. It is as if Kafka threw all he wanted to address at a wall and left it for the reader…… Continue reading The Trial

*Note: Based on the Penguin Classics, David McDuff translation. Includes spoilers. “No one suffers like a Russian” My cousin recommended that I read Crime and Punishment, amongst other Russian literature, with the tagline, “No one suffers like a Russian.” I immediately recognized the statement to be true, I just hadn’t put such precise wording to…… Continue reading Crime and Punishment

21 Lessons for the 21st Century is an attempt to understand and deal with the ramifications of Homo sapiens’ greatest invention: fiction. Fiction “Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.” – Yuval Noah Harari Fiction is a tool. Whether it is story about a fat man in a red suit…… Continue reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century