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"Going to Buenos Aires " means becoming a prostitute , not sure if you mentioned that .
Today, July 3rd is Kafka's birthday. I just completed a book of his short stories,this was my favorite,most thought provoking story. It raises so many issues with the treatment of prisoners,and Societies morals about crime and punishment. I felt such anxiety,and fear for the condemned man who wasn't even aware as to why he was receiving further punishment,not even a trial was given for him.. The officer was a sadistic,control freak,he couldn't accept the travelers answer to his question of accepting this way of punishment, he (the traveler) simply said "No". So..he sacrifices himself knowing he can't conform to the "New Order". The traveler always felt that he shouldn't interfere,that's why I was shocked that he admitted to the Officer of his distaste for this way of punishment with a torture device. I thoroughly enjoyed your guest, he totally shared my thoughts on this story,and a lot of the morals in question. It amazes me how humans delight in sadistic forms of punishment as far back as The Roman Coliseum,to Charles Dickens book "A Tale Of Two Cities" with the excitement of the use of The Guillotine, and... to this very day as Una pointed out people signing up to watch executions in prison. Truman Capote was asked by the two killers in his book "In Cold Blood" to attend their hanging,he reluctantly did so,and it has been said he was never the same after witnessing their hanging. I could talk about this story for hours.Thank you for this video ! Cindy 📚
Today is Kafka's Birthday, and I just finished a book of his short stories. This story was interesting to me,but as most of his stories...sad. My take away from this story was that you're only as good for as long as "The People" deem your artistry as new and exciting. People become bored quickly,and are quick to move on to the next "Fad",as we so often see these days on "Social Media". Happy Birthday Franz...🎂
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Hi Guys, I enjoyed your video, but I disagree with you about something. If you remember, in the story, when Edie is asked by the adults if she has been intimate with Chris, she says 'yes', she doesn't lie. But to her 'being intimate' is the not the same as what the adults think it means.
I had such a hard time trying to figure out where Dostoevsky was going with this story (perhaps Dostoevsky himself wasn't yet sure) at the end of Part I. I suspect FD was still developing the story idea in his own head as he developed the plot from the 'idea'. I think he knew very well where he wanted to go with the story - but not entirely certain how he was going to get there. Until Part II. Just my own opinion.
Daaaamn that was deep. This analysis hit really hard in me
You also see the The Red Death as the narrator since he is the only left at the end of the story.
In your discussion you asked us to make a choice a) to stay in Omelas, b) go away somewhere. But in the story you may find more options: c) you may just take a child and save him (or just change a room and how he lives), d) you can take a place of this child and suffer yourself and free this child!or e) you can change rules in Omelas and even people will be happier knowing that no one is suffering anymore!!! Answering a question about homeless people - can we as society help them - I think “yes only” that homeless people want to change their lives And they just need little help, but if a person doesn’t want to work you can do nothing- it is his choice to be homeless.
My grandparents were one of the first people in the countryside they lived in to have a radio/ record player and all the neighbors and townspeople would come around twice a month for an evening of music and dancing and bring food as well as their own instruments for when the broadcasts were over and people weren’t ready to leave 💗 Grandma made Grandpa put it over in the Firehall (grandpa was a volunteer firefighter) but it worked out well because there was more room for dancing over there 😄
If you look at his works the way you do Tarantino's movies, as in they all take place in the same universe, you can connect this book to Crime and Punishment. Where that was a look at what happens when someone accepts the teachings of Nietzsche personally, this book looks at what happens to society when it embraces nihilism as a whole. And if you look at it holistically like that, you can see that this is an Orthodox Christian prophetic work on what will happen in Germany and Europe in the 1930s.
Brothers Karamazov is indeed his magnum opus because it's the greatest work of literary fiction of all time.
i can dig Flannery O'Connor, who herself really dug Faulkner. I really like reading about Faulkner, not so much reading him...
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Intentions matter not just your actions... Yes, for instance, I like to tip service more then just the general amount because I really believe in rewarding the labor people do, BUT if I was tipping because I felt guilty for some behavior, if I ever correct that behavior, the tipping would stop.
I am getting a tee shirt that says... The Dosta Coaster
Did General Epanchin give Myshkin money? I thought he set him up for a job and lodgings. I thought he was selflessly helping him out because he realized Myshkin was a genuine nice guy.
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Excellent analysis. Sutpen married Ellen for respectability, not additional wealth. Coldfield was a struggling, but respectable storekeeper.
What an insightful resource you both provide. Many thanks.
I still remember when I read it back in 2012 I couldn't understand it it's like philosophy book !!!
@8:45 Oates is great. She's right up there with Shirley Jackson. This story would never, ever be accepted from a new author today because publishing would have the same reaction as you did. A young female protagonist who is at least partly unlikable? Who is unable to physically beat up the adult male villain? Some mixed messages about the pros and cons of promiscuity? None of those are allowed in The Narrative.
Thank you so much 😊
I took the story to be totally summed up in the last to lines. Nick saying he can’t stand to think about a man just holed up awaiting his end, which will be gruesome, and then being told to not think about it. How many people who orbit our lives are listless, awaiting their awful fate which they and we know is coming, and we don’t think about it. Hemingway was one of those people
They gave this guy nobel prize because he was an American author and they needed some classic works for their so called literature.
The broken harmonium, The painting, and the promises... (which are a blessing of domestic safety and comfort popular in ireland are all things forgotten. the Promises... foiled by her fathers abuse, the harmonium, broken to never make music again, and the portrait can be assumed to be a dead friend. Evelines dather avoids these subjects. He hates hearing the music being played by the organ (italian immigration was very insignificant at that time so his outburst against the organ player might be mote directed at the music itself). with these being metaphorically dead things near the room of Evelines dead mother I think that her fathers saying that his friend in the portrait has gone to melbourne is her fathers way of avoiding bringing up the subject of a lost friend. This metaphorical use of location justifies the idea of going to buenos aires being a metaphor as well. this phrase, was popular at the time and meant going into prostitution. I believe that Evelines true reason for not going to buenos aires was because in her prayer, God revealed to her Frank's intentions of selling her as a prostitute. Frank being congruent in pronounciation to franc, currency in europe symbolizes his selfish motives and could
I meant to edit this to finish but I couldnt - they are to set sail to england on the night boat, this is in the wrong direction to go to buenos aires. It is feasable that they could have set off to buenos aires from england but I think that frank meant to take eveline to continental europe
Another thing I must point out is that the ages of the lead characters are kept in mystery. In the opening it feels like Mikage & Yuichi are preteens, I mean it seems normal for a preteen to invite an orphaned acquaintance to live with him & his 30-something mother for sometime. But since the introduction of relationships in classes, it seemed they're teenagers in school, of the ages to form relationships & hold jealousies for partners. But in the 2nd chapter it's made explicitly clear that Mikage is finishing her university studies & joining a full-time work. In the writer's ability to blur the character ages, she has expressed Mikage's emotional sensitivity more successfully. She wouldn't feel this vulnerable if we knew from the start that she was just an adult losing a grandparent!
Love how u pronounce it as ‘smeared jack off’😂
This is my favorite book… so good…. I’m re reading it over holiday… ❤❤ it.😊
💯 reading it now
preparing for an exam this morning
Wonderful video! I wish I had seen it before I read the portrait as my first Joyce read. One minor thing though, the catholic church wasn't the only one before Luther, the orthodox church existed way before the divide in Christianity in the west. 😊
Guys, stop using word GULAG. ГУЛАГ- Г- Главное (main), У- управление (management), ЛАГ- лагерей (camps- actually labour penal camps). It was not a place, it was a management of Soviet penal labour camps. During Dostoevsky time living GULAG didn't exist.
Marya's prototype was Tolstoy's mother.
why does kripto and @matteolanecomedy look so alike
I got the blue cover translation of war and peace on Kindle for 99 cents. It's 1997 freaking pages long. That's twice as long as the two books I just read put together and no doubt far more complicated. It might take me until next year to finish reading it, but I'll give it a shot.
Do you guys do novels anymore? It's been all short stories and poetry for a year now.
We do. We’re working on Ulysses so it’ll be a 6 hour video at this rate. Probably the most involved effort we’ve ever taken on
@@TheCodeXCantina Taking the path of least resistance eh? :) jk looking forward!
_First!_ What edition of _Ulysses_ is that over your right shoulder? 😅 This is probably my favorite Ginsberg poem. 🖋 "The mundane becoming magical because of a muse ..." I like that 😊 Great points regard 2034 😮
Illustrated edition. Lots of unique art
the chinaberry tree...never thought of that one.
Before you read ? I've already read it twice times in my life , it is , perhaps , the archetype of the modern psychological novel , absolutely masterpiece ...!
Our fellow man are conformist normies who think good is evil because you know... They're normies aka spiritless NPC Chuckle heads -The End
I didn’t realize I was so different from you guys! I love it because I thought you guys were more “Intellectual”!! Haha haha
It’s an interesting classification for what we call ourselves vs what we strive for. Thanks for watching
I always saw “it” as a boy idky. But in some since my brother and I were that child until I got an apartment and I got us out. I regret it but whatever. We escaped
Russians can have multiple nicknames and they can go back and forth between them. When I lived in Moscow, I knew a woman who called me Shereechka (my name is Sheri). I knew someone names Ivan who sometimes his friends called him Vanya and Vanushka.
I'm excited what Mike Flannigan can do with the story!
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i have read it in french ( I'm not french) it was excellent.
I think Vonnegut's 'robot dropping jellied gasoline' was the precursor to this line from Apocalypse Now and the halitosis was the nose art. Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fvck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
Just finished part 5 and I have been following your recaps. They have been very helpful to my understanding of the text. Great work gentlemen!
My favorite short story!