Metamorphosis Of Friendship

Metamorphosis ?
Some words get so associated with specific things. This word goes with Franz Kafka, for his well-analyzed story "The Metamorphosis". Check out the plot in Wikipedia. A simple school essay interpretation of that story is "people change, and therefore shít happens". Of course, you'd recognize this as an obvious corollary to:

Cogito, ergo sum-- is a philosophical statement that was made in Latin by René Descartes, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am"...... As Descartes explained it, "we cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt." A fuller version, articulated by Antoine Léonard Thomas, aptly captures Descartes's intent: dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am"). The dictum is also sometimes referred to as the cogito. [source: wikipedia]​

What IL-Hall-of-Famer Amica recommended in Making-Friends thread is to doubt, while thinking.

 

Stories Like that ? You can easily google the word "kafkaesque" and go on a reading trip.

Here is a secret that is very much out in the open: there are many fans of that kind of Kafka genre, namely kafkaesque stories, who revel in reading the posts in married-life, and In-laws sub-forums on this site.

There is one anthology sold on Amazon. The amazon site has this to say <I am certainly not suggesting buy this book>:

The tourist shops of Prague sell dozens of items commemorating Franz Kafka. You can drink a latte in the Café Kafka, add sugar to it from a packet with Kafka’s face on it, and then light your cigarette from a box of Kafka matches.

Franz Kafka died in obscurity in 1924, publishing only a handful of bizarre stories in little-known literary magazines. Yet today he persists in our collective imaginations. Even those who have never read any of Kafka’s fiction describe their tribulations with the Department of Motor Vehicles as being Kafkaesque.

Kafkaesque explores the fiction of generations of authors inspired by Kafka’s work. These dystopic, comedic, and ironic tales include T. C. Boyle’s roadside garage that is a never-ending trial, Philip Roth’s alternate history in which Kafka immigrates to America to date his aunt, Jorge Luis Borges’s labyrinthine public lottery that redefines reality, Carol Emshwiller’s testimony by the first female to earn the right to call herself a "man” and Paul Di Filippo’s unfamiliar Kafka? journalist by day, costumed crime-fighter by night.

Also included is Kafka’s classic story ?The Hunger Artist,” appearing both in a brand-new translation and in an illustrated version by legendary cartoonist R. Crumb (Fritz the Cat). Additionally, each author discusses Kafka’s writing, its relevance, its personal influence, and Kafka’s enduring legacy.​

 

@SuiDhaaga, a beautiful gut-wrenching poem. Our world is full of amazing, wonderful, caring people. I hope they find their way into your life soon.

Thanks for sharing this song. I hadn't heard it before.

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Whoa! Philosophy is not my department. I try hard not to think.

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