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Kafka Knew Office Hell
New York, 2:47 PM
Thu Dec 10
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Nietzsche may have brought enough for everybody.
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[en.wikipedia.org]
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Oh good! Maybe someone someday will be interested in what I write for a living, which could be titled How to Construct Your Building So It Will Not Settle Six Inches Into the Ground (2008) but are not.
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There's literary magic to be found inthe 500 or so clips I've amassed on City Council meetings, angry NIMBY neighbors and cat hoarders.
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If Kafka had not worked in an insurance office and been exposed daily to the absurd and dehumanizing aspects of industrialism (such as industrial accidents, decisions about how much a human life or a limb is worth vs. faster production), it's likely his writings wouldn't have been nearly as influential, prescient, interesting.
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Is it a symptom of the crappiness of our writers today that we have to schlep up Kafka's business writing? That's kind of grim.
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On the other hand, I believe collections of Wallace Stevens' prose include one or two of his professional essays on insurance.
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I bet it would have included tropical fruits and lots of ice cream.
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