hope

FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY

From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, a reminder via Jason Kottke: “The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first isContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY”

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE

From this interview with Michael Tolkin. We have suffered catastrophes throughout history. Do you think our current one can be corrected? So the story goes that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and biographer, asked Kafka, “Franz, is there hope?” And Kafka answered, “Oh yes, Max, there’s plenty of hope, an infinity of hope — but not forContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE”