Then v Now

It’s not that students don’t ‘get’ Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get - the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

— David Foster Wallace (via singthebodyeclectic)

(Source: thiscyclicalbook)

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