From Hot Air Headlines comes the news that Kafka’s porn stash has been exposed to the light of day, a blow to Kafkaphiles who would like to preserve the great writer’s image as . . . a normal Joe? On the other hand, I don’t think even Kafka’s dark imagination perverse enough to serve us up something more twistedly pornographic than David Brown.
Perhaps most interesting about this publication is that Kafka asked that his manuscripts be destroyed after his death. Obviously, that wasn’t done–fortunately, in my view. Still . . .
That’s wrong. A friend of mine worked on a project archiving this old dead character actor’s stuff. I can’t really remember the backstory… but she had to look through tons of envelopes of pictures of him having sex with this guy and that, and log the nature and content of the pictures. She said it felt really very wrong. Of course also she told me all about it.
I didn’t get the sense that Kafka’s porn was twisted at all, just serious about being porn sort of porn.
Speaking of which, have you seen the new zombie report on the San Fran streetfair?
link? But, really, that’s barrel-fishing kind of.
http://www.zombietime.com/up_your_alley_2008/
alrighty then. I really hadn’t expected to be shocked. But there you go.
Think of the political clout necessary to pull something like that off and not be bothered by the police or whoever. Quite a lot I should think.
So, do we have a torrent link for download yet?
Not yet, EP.
Darn, I really wanted some giant cockroach action.
An interesting Starnews online reviewof a James Hawes book on Kafka “myths” includes this discussion of Kafka’s request to have his papers destroyed:
That Hawes book supposedly contains some of the Kafka pron images. But an image search hasn’t brought anything up but Kafka’s starey head and some line drawings of cockroaches.
I think Brod was probably his “porn buddy” and failed to carry out his assigned duties.
(that link is safe, btw)
Sdferr
I’m always amazed at how calmly and matter-of-factly zombie reports on those not-to-be-believed public orgies in San Fran
Then I’m amazed I haven’t dragged my daughter home from college up there. ;-)
That’s maybe the most complex incident of unintentional irony I’ve ever seen. (The quote, not the thing it thinks it says.)
It reminds me to hurry and dirty up my porn stash for posterity. I could get sucked under an ice cream truck any day, and it’ll seem like in my dark secret life I was just some normal jerk like I actually am. That’s not interesting. Those zombie pics will make a good start for the “fat guys’ ugly cocks in sickly dudes’ mouths” wing of the Psycho… Memorial OH CHRIST CLOSE-CLOSE-CLOSE Library.
You’ve seen it said too many times about such things: “Why is it never people I want to see fucking I see fucking in public?” As we learned during Obama’s last election, they do do it, just not in front of you. That’s how you know you’re on the skidmarked side of life. Cheers.
Two kinds of people can get away with anything: the people who decide who gets away with what, and people whose misbehavior benefits the people who decide who gets away with what. Those guys are not the former. The phrase “tool of the man” comes to mind, twice.
I’m glad nobody cares about my porn but me.
Fluffed-up rubbish, sadly. A result a ditzy Times arts journalist who didn’t bother to Google the name Franz Blei, and a novelist turned researcher who has a new book to promote in “the silly season”. A book, which, incidentally has had no pre-publication reviews – which suggests it’s pretty bad.