'went about a great deal lately. fewer headaches...'
- franz kafka, diaries, 3rd november 2015.
kafka is going about with miss r. and 'the two wonderful sisters esther and tilka; they are like the contrast between a light on and a light off. tilka especially is beautiful; olive-brown, lowered, curving eyelids, heart of asia ..'
and yet he dreams of esther.
'half asleep I had a long vision of esther, who, with the passion she impresses me as having or everything spiritual, had the knot of a rope firmly between her teeth and swung energetically back and forth in the empty room like the clapper in a bell (a film poster I remember).'
we are with kafka until the 6th. we are back with edmond de goncourt on the 7th and kilvert on the 8th.
horsemouth was reading a review of love's work (and gillian rose's other works) and who should appear in it but rahel varnhagen (as earlier written about by hannah arendt).
in some ways there is a repeat of thoreau's admonition from yesterday;
'we should not endeavour coolly to analyse our thoughts, but, keeping the pen even and parallel with the current, make an accurate transcript of them.' in some ways rahel is praised by arendt for doing this, but she is also called a schlemihl, a shadow, an unfortunate.
there's a lot here and horsemouth is not going to struggle with it first thing (once upon a time he 'understood' a lot of this, or at least he could swim in that pool).
NTS has put out a compilation of instrumental guitar, mapping out the european analogues of the american primitive guitar movement. there was a show on NTS as well.
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