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I might never read books from old white people again, always gotta be racist this in there. But I think I’m gonna finish the book just to see what the fuss is about.

“Men with categories in their minds and guns in their hands”

“As what they need decreases, their activity decreases. They will then be close to doing no-thing and therefore close to not being what the men created them to be”

The reviews were not playing around when they said Jones is telling a story you haven’t heard before

“This was the River I had walked along as a child, the river Baba had fished in, the river that Agha Jan’s first wife had crossed in the Qajar-jeweled horse that arrived her over the hill to her new life…. For those who stayed [by the river] life retained a continuity that cannot be found anywhere else”

“We pass an arch that leads nowhere; a crumbling brick fort with a missing tower; the top of a hut sticking out of the ground- a hundred pasts broken down by the wind and sun”

I’ve liked the stories I’ve read so far, mostly I feel very surprised at Kafka’s writing. I must admit I don’t know anything about him besides that he is a famous author, but his writing utilizes logos- actually a bit similar to Franz Fanon who, albeit, is trying to convince his readers of his points with logos- which I didn’t expect from Kafka. His stories are seemingly pointless, but strangly compelling!