The New Yorker Fiction Podcast featured Kafka's four short pieces translated by one Michael Hoffman. Ben Okri was reading out the stories, and as I was listening to him explain the pieces afterwards, I couldn't understand what was the actual point of the second piece. Could anyone here deconstruc...

From "To Be Held for Reference" by Rudyard Kipling: “All things considered, I doubt whether you are the luckier. I do not refer to your extremely limited classical attainments, or your excruciating quantities, but to your gross ignorance of matters more immediately under your notice. That for in...

What did mother teresa mean by this paradox?

Here is the poem "Thrushes" by Ted Hughes: Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, More coiled steel than living - a poised Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs Triggered to stirrings beyond sense - with a start, a bounce, a stab Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing...

as i understand, cyberpunk is a reaction to both capitalism and the effects that advanced technology can have, focusing on the technology advancements(in a pornographic manner) and how it helped to decrease the quality of life and freedom of people. ubik is a novel by the great Philip k. Dick, wh...

The novel Erewhon published by Samuel Butler in 1872 is said to be one of the first dystopian novels. The middle section of the book reads as a satire on the English Judicial system. By making the Erewhonian judicial system almost an inverse of that prevailing in late Victorian times it highligh...

English isn't my main language, so it's quite hard for me. Could someone help me out? Softly I Walk in the forest the owl stands beside me the deer stands beside me all manner of animals stand beside me I am not afraid the path of the moon is my robe the moon and the lake they stand watching the ...