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Apr 25Liked by Chip Parkhurst

Your writing for some reason reminded me of Kafka’s diary entries reminiscing about how his upbringing effected him

He writes the same thought more than 3-4 times, each time expanding on it.

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/revisionists-history/

There is also his scathing letter to his father which is a whole other story

https://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/Bellevue/Bellevue/Departments/DocumentsSubCategories/Documents/letter-to-my-father.pdf

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by Chip Parkhurst

Also reminded me of this beautifully haunting poem I bumped into on substack

https://open.substack.com/pub/poeticoutlaws/p/tombstone-as-a-lonely-charm-32b

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Thanks, Ranas! I am a great admirer of Kafka. I will read this translation in detail.

Hopefully I don’t come as scornfully as he sometimes does.

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Well stated and thoughtfully considered! The amorphous pressures that shape us are complex and mapping them dispassionately is a worthwhile exercise.

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Thank you, brother!

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