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What the fuck did i just read?

>> No.16161785

>>16161770
"in the penal colony" by franz kafka, if your picture is related to the topic at hand.

>> No.16161788

>>16161770
Sei gerecht, anon!

>> No.16161790

>>16161785
but what was the point of that entire thing? i feel like im missing something here

>> No.16161807

In the Penile Colony, starring Sasha Grey

>> No.16161808

>>16161790
lol i dont know man i dont read books

>> No.16162074

You read through to the noumena

>> No.16162445

>>16161790
Capital punishment - The abjection of those that don’t mesh with greater society - Man playing God - Industrial Revolution. I mean its a great story but its not subtle with its themes OP.

>> No.16162473

>>16161790
Read another Kafka book/story and I'll think you'll start to get it

>> No.16162484

>>16161770

haha torture machine go brrrrrr

>> No.16162485

Ah man i love this story! I read it in a kafka collection a couple months back. Glad to see its getting some love on here.

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Last Thursday, anon posted a thread about finding a bunch of books in a dumpster. Taking inspiration, I decided to check out the dumpster outside a local secondhand store today. It was open, I pull up and glance in but don't see any books. As I get back in my car, the door cracks open (there were no windows) and I suddenly see their prominent NO DUMPSTER DIVING sign and act like I'm innocently turning my car around. Shook desu.

What pushed me to check it, though, was that their hardcover copy of In The Penal Copy for $1.50 was missing. Rough times, pray 4 me :\

>> No.16163261

>>16161770
Great story. Personally, I took the machine to be capitalism, and the officer to be reactionaries. The officer clings to the machine despite all reason, then finds himself destroyed by that very machine without finding the same truth that he took the machine to hold. When analyzing the historical alliance between reactionary traditionalism and industrial capitalism, the resemblance is striking.

>> No.16163640

>>16163261
Cringe. Do you live in the 19th century or something?

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>>16163640
If you had a choice, wouldn't you? Why haven't you done so yet, anon?

>> No.16163674

>>16163261
I think you’re on to something with the idea of the devoted servant being destroyed by the machine without receiving enlightenment, but given Kafka’s other works, I’m guessing it refers to bureaucracy/law as opposed to capitalism.