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Read the third essay which is about Kafka being funny and how difficult it is to get his college lit students to understand that. I didn’t like this one much. Maybe I felt offended as someone who finds Kafka absolutely hilarious (I’ve read only The Trial and The Metamorphosis). I really didn’t like his wordy description of Kafka’s humor, which I previously imagined everyone understood without explanation.

Read the second essay, a highly critical and mean one about the author John Updike. My friends read it first and said they’d have liked it more if they knew who John Updike was first, so I did a little reading in hopes that this context would help me enjoy it more. I enjoyed it. He certainly convince me that the guy is a scumbag and that the book he’s criticizing sucked. The quotes about sexual stuff were insane.

First essay about the porn industry and the AVNAs. Pretty hilarious but I can’t stand the footnotes. I understand after some research that this is the style of DFW. I liked the second half of the essay a lot, when he described the main event linearly. I laughed out loud many times, and he’s a really impressive writer.