My Sweet Alpha
What might a man—a
Kafka—do if he organized and intensified this play, remade it in line with the
Germanic distortion, the Unheimlichkeit of Germany?
Notes
1 I allude to Mark Anthony, invoked by Caesar’s apostrophe: “on the Alps/It
is reported, thou didst eat strange flesh/Which some did die to look on …”
In these lines, I think I glimpse some inverted reflection of the zoological
myth of the basilisk, a serpent whose gaze is fatal. Pliny (Natural History,
Book Eight, paragraph 33) tells us nothing of the posthumous aptitudes of
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