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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Ch 8 from 2018-09-21T08:14:22
Interrupting the Kafka novel for an Aldous Huxley interlude. This is a 1939 novel set in Los Angeles.
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Chapter 7:"The Teacher" from 2013-10-06T02:01:10
The 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!
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Chapter 6:"Second Conversation with the Landlady" from 2013-07-17T18:44:30
From 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 con...
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Chapter 5:"At the Chairman's"(full) from 2013-07-12T18:02:16
K.'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 Italia...
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Chapter 4:"First Conversation with the Landlady"(full) from 2013-07-12T17:31:45
K. 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!)
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Chapter 3:"Frieda"(part 2) from 2013-07-09T18:03
I made a mistake reading the last line of the previous part, so I re-read the line at the beginning of this part.
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Chapter 3:"Frieda"(part 1) from 2013-07-09T17:35:01
K. scores a glimpse of the mysterious Klamm, as well as a sloppy hookup with Klamm's mistress, Frieda.
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Ch 2 of THE CASTLE:"Barnabas"(full) from 2013-07-05T03:58:55
The 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.
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Ch 1 of The Castle, tr Mark Harman, part 3 of 3 from 2013-07-05T02:30:58
Listen to those fireworks! Happy birthday, America btw -- this chapter has a name. It's called "Arrival". Enjoy!
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Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3 from 2013-07-05T02:10:25
Listen to the fireworks!
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The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1) from 2013-07-05T01:42:04
Check for Part 2!
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