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4 de jun. de 2024 · The rabbis say that parables teach Torah. Jesus says that only the seeker for truth can understand parables. Kafka says no one can. It’s a strange claim for a storyteller to make.
9 de jun. de 2024 · On this note, it is telling that, in his copy of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes (1961), Kubrick wrote, “The tower of Babel was the start of the space age.” Kafka’s 1917 short story, A Report to...
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24 de jun. de 2024 · Franz Kafka, “The Coming of the Messiah,” in Parables and Paradoxes (New York City: Schocken Books), 1969. Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (London: Harvill Secker, 2006), aphorism 6.
Hace 2 días · The second fundamental text of Taoism is the Zhuangzi, named after its author, Zhuang Zhou (or Chuang Tzu), who lived around the 4th century BCE.The Zhuangzi builds upon the philosophical foundations laid by the Tao Te Ching and is distinguished by its use of parables, allegories, and anecdotes to explore and illustrate Taoist concepts.
Hace 5 días · Simply put, Jesus teaches in parables to demonstrate the need for divine revelation to understand the mysteries of the kingdom and to reveal the spiritual condition of his listeners. Both of these realities are grounded in his understanding of Isaiah 6:9–10.
5 de jun. de 2024 · The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips takes up these restive questions with his characteristic rigor and sensitivity in On Wanting to Change (public library) — an insightful investigation of the paradoxes and possibilities of change, at the heart of which is our fundamental confusion about knowing what we really want, and what to want.
25 de jun. de 2024 · The plot centers on the novel’s namesake and patriarch Wendell Grieve Ryder, who lives on a farm named Bull’s Ease with his mother, Sophia; wife, Amelia; mistress, Kate-Careless; and the eight children he fathers with both women.
