Texts for Nothing
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsReadings and rants.
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Ch 8
September 21, 2018 00:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBInterrupting the Kafka novel for an Aldous Huxley interlude. This is a 1939 novel set in Los Angeles.
Chapter 7: "The Teacher"
October 06, 2013 02:01 - 21 minutes - 20 MBThe teacher offers K. a position as live-in janitor at the schoolhouse; Frieda pressures him into accepting. Starting salary: nothing a month. Talk about humiliating!
Chapter 6: "Second Conversation with the Landlady"
July 17, 2013 18:44 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBFrom her sickbed, Gardena the landlady explains to K. what a thrill it was to have been Klamm's mistress. Her "three mementos". How she met her husband, Hans, and opened the inn. K. resolves to confront Klamm as a "private individual".
Chapter 5: "At the Chairman's" (full)
July 12, 2013 18:02 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBK.'s audience with the bed-ridden but long-winded Chairman and his "insignificant" wife, Mizzi. Insight into the fascinating world of Kafka-esque bureaucracy at the Castle. The hyper-capable Italian clerk Sordini. K. gets flacked. "Nobody is keeping you here, but that still doesn't mean you're being thrown out."
Chapter 4: "First Conversation with the Landlady" (full)
July 12, 2013 17:31 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBK. and Frieda get busy; the landlady intervenes in their relationship and demands "assurances". What will Klamm say? K. makes a speech. (Finally joined the sound files together!)
Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 2)
July 09, 2013 18:03 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBI made a mistake reading the last line of the previous part, so I re-read the line at the beginning of this part.
Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 1)
July 09, 2013 17:35 - 6 minutes - 6.05 MBK. scores a glimpse of the mysterious Klamm, as well as a sloppy hookup with Klamm's mistress, Frieda.
Ch 2 of THE CASTLE: "Barnabas" (full)
July 05, 2013 03:58 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThe plot of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE (translated by Mark Harman)thickens in Chapter Two as we meet Barnabas, Olga, and Amalia, and K. starts feeling uncomfortable.
Ch 1 of The Castle, tr Mark Harman, part 3 of 3
July 05, 2013 02:30 - 8 minutes - 8.08 MBListen to those fireworks! Happy birthday, America btw -- this chapter has a name. It's called "Arrival". Enjoy!
Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3
July 05, 2013 02:10 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBListen to the fireworks!
The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1)
July 05, 2013 01:42 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBCheck for Part 2!