/lit/ - Literature

I purchased The Castle by Fritz Kafka. Inside, a girl had scribbled all sorts of horrible annotations like "metaphor for God?", "Existential Horror", and "Is K. An Atheist?"

My fear is that when I die and my estate is distributed, my literary reputation, which will at that point be stellar, will simply plummet, and I will become the butt of many many highbrow and lowbrow jokes.

Should I throw the book away?

Why do a lot of English words sound like what they describe?
>Squelch
>Plaudit
>Fart
>Eviscerate
>Finagle
>etc

What is this called? Why does this occur? Do other languages have this?