Sometimes I feel more like Josef K. than I can handle.

"...it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance." Franz Kafka has more wisdom than he is given credit for.
The other day my mother took me to a very nice used book store in New Hampshire. My original quest was for some poetry, specifically that of William Blake(the reigning champion of the Romantic period in my humble opinion). Unfortunately I was unsuccessful in obtaining my Blake, but I was able to get some Coleridge, one of Blake's Romantic contemporaries, and some Alexander Pope, mater of neoclassicism. My poetic hunger satiated, I turned my eye to the novel; however, the inconceivable amount of literature that surrounded me began to make me anxious. After trying desperately to find a new author with absolutely no ground to stand on, I turned back to an old high school favorite I have not visited for quite some time: Franz Kafka. While looking at the stores Praguian selection I found a book I read senior year, The Trial. Although the book was the subject of a MASSIVE research paper I did on Kafka, I couldn't recall any of the details of the book, so I decided to pick it up. I remember why I love Franz Kafka.
His prose is at the same time overtly realistic and surreal. Mixing the drudgery of day to day existence with sudden bursts of dream like situations passed off as normalcy his novels the language of a true manic-depressant. With the mere 50 pages I have read Kafka has once again claimed the throne as favorite author. I can't wait to finish this novel and begin another of his.
Lately I've been going through a very big "classical" music phase. I use quotation marks because not everything labeled as "classical" in society truly is. Bela Bartox is not classical music, Aaron Copland is not classical music, even Bach is not classical, but they all come up as so in my iTunes, and technology is king. My father also introduced me to a new artist Daniel Johnston. Very beautiful folk music it is. I've decided to steal his complete discography. It should be done downloading in less than an hour. Thank you, BitTorrent 6.4.