“It’s not money I need, but a friend.
A friend who can tell me how to run away.
I’ve always wanted to.
A friend to share my pleasure and pain.”
🎥 Au Hasard #Balthazar (1966)
Dir. Robert #Bresson
My fourth Kafka was The Trial (at 31).
By then, the world it described wasn’t foreign. It didn’t confuse me - it confirmed something. A quiet suffocation i already knew how to name
#Kafka#TheTrial#Literature
Read The Metamorphosis at 22 - my first encounter with Kafka. What stayed with me wasn’t the insect, it was the compassion… How easily we withdraw love from those who no longer fit the shape we expect
#Kafka#Metamorphosis#Literature
My third Kafka was Letter to His Father (at 31). By then, I could meet Kafka’s depth without drowning. No fiction, no disguise - only the wound, unwrapped
#Kafka#LetterToHisFather#Literature
A paradise. A fall. A fever dream.
Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (c.1490–1510) defies time and logic - and yet somehow, it mirrors us still
#NorthernRenaissance#PradoMuseum#ArtHistory
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
- Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe (1930)