| ▲ | namanyayg 6 days ago |
| This is messing with my head. I love Spinoza and Kafka and couldn't imagine them as anything else but being full-time thinkers and writers. |
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| ▲ | nisegami 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Personally, the line between 'administrator in an insurance company' and Kafka's works fits neatly within my mental model of the world. |
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| ▲ | throwawayoldie 6 days ago | parent [-] | | Which makes me wonder what he called the kind of experience a person has when dealing with an insurance company: the word "Kafkaesque" didn't exist yet. | | |
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| ▲ | throwanem 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Who told you they weren't? Are you only a programmer or a thinker about programming while at keys? |
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| ▲ | volkk 6 days ago | parent [-] | | i think by full time they meant sitting around in some dingy room, smoking cigarettes and positing/thinking rather than filling most of their days with other activities that have nothing to do with this craft (and i would say to posit well, you need life experiences and they did exactly what they needed to do to become legendary) | | |
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