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comments about my kafka site
Subject: No subject
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999
Hi! Real quick.. I just wanted you to know how much your web page on Kafka is greatly appreciated. I checked out the web about a month ago and didn't really get far. But since I'm back this time around there seems to be few changes (more sites). As I am writing a paper on Kafka and "The Metamorphosis", I find your site to be of trmendous assistant. It's great to see someone so intrigued by Kafka to dedicate a web page to a great writer. For I myself am not a lit major, and I'm only doing this paper to pass this one Eng. class. However, I have been taken by his writing and plan to get better aquanted with his other stories. Anyhow, sorry about my rambling on. Oh and by the way I read some of your personal stuff and I find what you have to say are pretty interesting and entertaining.. Thanks!
Subject: Your useless website
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000
I just wanted you write and tell you that I was thoroughly impressed by your website. He (Kafka) is one of my favorite writers and at the moment I was (am) surfing for info on him to inspire a design for a book jacked for "The Metamorphosis" (I am (a literate) art major) (I also like using my punctuation creatively)
(thankyou for posting an intelligent site in a web of mess)
Subject: thanx
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000
I am a high school student who is writing a paper on Metamorphosis. I like to get ideas and opinions from pepers on the internet, but I never copy them because my teacher would know I am not that good at writing. But any how, I just wanted to thank you for setting up this one. I took a lot of your ideas and combined them with my paper. It helped me out a lot. I wish more people took the time to help others out with stuff like this like you did. Thank you
Subject: My Kafka Paper
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000
Hey!!!! Thank you for providing a Kafka website! The info you provided saved my paper on his life and I am so glad your site was available (and not in german!) I was very interested in your thoughts on the metamorphosis, which aided in my writing and paralleled many of my own thoughts. If you find out any more neat things about him, please e-mail me, ok? Once again, I thank you.
Subject: Re: "the metamorphosis" . . . .
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999
thanx a lot for your help ....
hopefully i get at least a B ... heheh again thanx...
Subject: on your kafka page
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999
thank you thank you
you've just made Metamorphosis make sense.and my life soooo much easier
thank you thank you
Subject: hey
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999
You might be surprised recieving this email written by someone you don't know, but wel, I'm one of the "hot chick" ACCIDENTLY hit your page in order to get some ideas of The metamorphosis for my paper. But unfortunately, I've got my paper do write tonight already. Well, just feel like drop you a few encourageous words, and thanks for helping me out with that well thought out metamorphosis page! So keep it up. =)
Subject: Kafka
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999
having humiliated myself totally by confusing kafka with capra in a conversation with a man i was rather hoping to impress, my research led me to find your site. you will be disgusted to learn that i got as far as the bit where he opens the door in metamorphosis, found the rest of your site, got totally distracted, laughed my head off, and managed to thoughroughly impress the guy in question all in one go. what can i say, but thank you
Subject: kakfka comment
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999
hi I just want to thank you for you wonderful site. I read the story and I like all the trasnformations that take place in the story. The way that you describe them are really alike my thoughts and i agree with your explanations
Subject: The Metamorphosis
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999
Hi there. I just wanted to say thank you for putting up a page on Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" I found your notes especially helpful. I mean even though I had a vague idea about what the story was about, I really had no idea on what to write my paper on. Your notes helped me out a lot! Thanks!
Subject: Kafka
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999
I just wanted to drop you a line and aye thanks for the Kafk page. I kinda laughed when i saw on one of your pages "another useless web page". You helped vclarify my ideas about metamorphosis. I am in a world lit class and we have very active discusions on the stories. I wouldnt plagerize your ideas but i can enjoy the thoughts you help to create!! Thanks
Subject: THE METAMORPHOSIS
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999
Thank you so much for all the info!!!! I know it will help me a bunch. I appreciate it. I will try to send it to you when I am done. Thanks again!
Subject: Kafka Site
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999
Hi- I just wanted to say thank you for such an informative site. We are currently studying Kafka's Metamorphosis in My AP English class. I found the book to be extremely intriguing and wanted to do a little post research. This site helped me gain further insight into the book, Kafka's life, and the deep symbolism. Thanks Again
Subject: nothing, really....
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999
hi. first, thanks muchos, i could not find the fulltext version of the metamorphosis *anywhere* (on the internet)...and being me, i lost my friend's copy...whoops. the whole time i was thinking...what kinda person even has the time to type out the entire story!--as short as it is. so, came back to your site for more kafka/metamorphosis research...and decided to just look around somemore...neglecting my mammoth presentation due in a couple of hrs. it's all worth it. i spent forever reading just a whole buncha useless stuff that will most likely serve me no purpose, but i do think i gained some perspective which is more valuable than all the subjective, concrete stuff i could otherwise be picking up. you've got some very mind stimulating stuff there...i just gotta tell ya that you're insane...who sits in the hamburger store and contemplates, analyzes to death, the corrupt THEMS and the even stupider US' in the world? but then again, you're the guy who typed metamorphosis... i'm just thinking...yummy hamburger...i'm content...that's just the way things are...it's simply inevitable...humans aren't genius'...end of story. i'd go nuts if i thought as much as you seem to...regardless the subject matter, just the thinking in itself is an effort. then again, maybe it's an admirable quality...i don't know.
thanks for making something great readily available...it was a fun time...take care...if you can get around to it, write... don't think i'll actually get around to completing my sole purpose of getting on the internet...ohwell...
Subject: metamorphasis question
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999
you are the bomb. thanks for the insight, hopefully you will read some more stuff you love this much and make another intellegent web site.
Subject: Metamorphisis
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999
I teach English at a Catholic High School, and think your thoughts on the novella are very interesting and will incorporate them into my lecture. Thank you.
| Subject: | oh my god |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 |
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I cannot believe you wrote this story for free. I was about to pay 12.95 for it. thank you for saving a student some much needed $$$$ read my reply |
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| Subject: | The metamorphisis |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 |
| I am a student at the University of Cincinnati, and in my sophomore literature class, we are currently discussing Kafka and "The Metamorphisis", so I thought I'd share some input that we derived from the story. | |
| Subject: | Thanks a million! |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 |
| I just wanted to thank you so much for all the help that you give to students, like myself who may not understand the writings of Kafka. My senior World Lit class had to read The Metamorphosis and I didn't understand it at all. Thanks to your page I not only understood the meanings but I also chose to use his work on my Final exam. Thanks for also putting down the questions of others to give everyone the chance to better understand his work. If I do well on my exam then you can count on it being sent your way. Thanks a billion! | |
| Subject: | cool |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 |
| cool kafka site dude, liked it . . . check out my writing as well as my good friend, Entity's masterpieces: http://theclinic.ontheweb.nu | |
| Subject: | thanks |
| Date: | Sat, 12 Dec 1998 |
| Thanks for your nice Kafka's pages at the 'net. Here my modest homage to Kafka, new writing from Israel: kofko in my hand | |
| Subject: | i read your take on the metamorphosis |
| Date: | Sun, 6 Dec 1998 |
| i'm in love with you. thanks for writing that- it was extremely helpful. | |
| Subject: | kafka |
| Date: | Tue, 01 Dec 1998 |
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hello-
my english composition class is studying metamorphisis currently. i personally had a hard time reading it and had an even harder time interpreting it. it is my understanding that metamorphisis has bee interpreted many ways. but through searching all over for some kind of help on what any of these posible interps were, i only found your take on the story. i was very impressed and found it really interesting to read. i now see the story much clearer. i plan to tell the other people in my class about the site. we have a paper due by the end of the week so you might be getting some hits. after my paper is completed and returned i will e-mail it to you with what my english proffesor thought of it. |
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| Subject: | Nothing of importance |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Nov 1998 |
| Well, it's 11:40pm in Miami and I'm ripped, I mean spun, blitzed. I'm surfing the web looking for Metamorphosis and Kafka info. and inadvertently land on you're site. Just wanted to let you know, that it was the best thing I've stumbled across, thus far on the web. Keep up the good work. | |
| Subject: | .. |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 |
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I read the other comments about your Kafka site. I don't care how many people tell me otherwise, all literature is open to a personal interpretation. Anyone who decides that a text MUST be interpreted in one way is dumber than a person who believes 'The Judgement' was about a butterfly. The reason is because the first person has tunnel vision and the other person is thinking laterally. Okay, so maybe it is impossible for anybody to see what a butterfly has to do with anything. BUT YOU'RE NOT THE PERSON WHO SAID IT!! So, don't expect to understand it. Kafka never cared what other people thought, so why should anyone else? read my reply |
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| Subject: | Thoughts on Metamorphosis |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 |
| Thanks, Brian. | |
| Subject: | kafka |
| Date: | Wed, Sep 30 1998 |
| i think it's pretty cool how much you've done on franz kafka. a person to love an author is truly pretty cool. i also like the fact that you have the novels on the internet. that's cool | |
| Subject: | Kafka page |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 |
| Thank you! I liked what you said about "The Metamorphosis" and the "Amateur Jockeys" story. I was just wondering if you would like to see my Franz Kafka site at: http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/. Tell me what you think. | |
| Subject: | kafka |
| Date: | Sat, 22 Aug 1998 |
| your "thoughts" on metamorphosis are the biggest bullshit i've ever read about Kafka's works.I can't believe u r a literature major..what u wrote, shows your complete misunderstanding on the subject, as well as your poor literary style, which needs to be improved. | |
| Subject: | Kafka appreciation |
| Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 1997 |
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Thanks alot for your fascinating insight into the world of Kafka, I find your thoughts on "The Metamorphosis" both challenging and stimulating and it is obvious that you have a great and rare insight into the mind of Kafka. Have you considered adding the short story "For the consideration of amateur jockeys" to your website? In my opinion this one of the best and most underrated of Kafka's works. |
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| Subject: | thanks a lot! |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Jul 1998 |
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Brian, Thanks soooooooooo much for your help. |
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| Subject: | great job |
| Date: | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 |
| GREAT JOB | |
| Subject: | Metamorphosis |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Jun 1998 |
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I recently saw a performance of Steven Berkoff's version of Metamorphosis at King Alfred's College in Winchester (UK), and, just out of interest, I looked up his name on the old 'net. I was quite surprised to trace the play back to Kafka, having heard much about him from some teachers, yet not having read any of his work. It was a delight to be able to read the original version of The Metamorphosis, and I loved making comparisons between the original, and the play. Thankyou, is all I can say for your wonderful site (although rather strange it is, what with the stick men) and for getting me well and truly hooked on Kafka. read more about this play here |
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| Subject: | gregor speaks english? |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Jun 1998 |
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"...in the beginning of the story, he can still speak english, and his family can still understand him..." you wrote this. while your essay is insightful and well-written, this makes me smile. i get your point anyway, but... the fictional Samsa family probably lives in Prague, a century ago, so the chances of them speaking english are pretty slim. they most certainly spoke German (like Kafka's family) or Czech or possibly Yiddish. perhaps a subtle distinction, but while there are universalities in kafka, the culture needs to be correctly interpreted, not dismissed and replaced by our own. even when kafka writes about america, it is a distinctly prague-german-jewish view of america, and not much like the real america at all. |
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| Subject: | thank you |
| Date: | Tue, 26 May 1998 |
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Hi, Thank you for your insight on the metamorphosis. I have to write a short paper on this short story and it was great to get someone else's opinion of the short story. I read it once in high school and decided to reread it only to find that I interpreted this story in a different way each time. So I thought that I would find out what other peoples insight were on this story. Thanks again:-) |
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| Subject: | you are very cool... |
| Date: | Wed, 8 Apr 1998 |
| ...Keep up the good work | |
| Subject: | The Metamorphosis |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 |
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Hey Brian, Thanks for putting "The Metamorphosis" on the net. I read "In the Penal Colony" this term and was facinated by Kafka and wanted to read some more. Thanks |
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| Date: | Tue, 24 Feb 1998 |
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I find your site note not very useful, and by the way your i's are very irritating. However I do have a few suggestions, the way your website presents you as a person seems to be very laid back and a bit too lazy, if you're going to have a website on Kafka you should do it properly as he at least deserves something better then this. As well how you commemorate the people who have visited your website as "at least---people have boring lives" I find is silly and a let down. Truly get rid of this website or do something better with it. Especially with your "answerings" of your own questions about humans and beasts. Clean up your grammer!! For a person saluting Kafka and enjoying his novels, I'm not saying you have to be a complete "english major" to enjoy him but they way you present yourself as a "know it all or something" on Kafka you just might want to change your style. Anyways, that's my views on this website do whatever you want with my opinions. |
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| Subject: | Author name |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Feb 1998 |
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Hello, I am writing a paper on Kafka and am using your site as a source. However, since it is a critical interpretation, I need your name for my annotated bibliography. I would greatly appreciate it if you would send it to me. Thank you so much in advance. Once my paper is graded, I would be happy to send it to you. Thank you once again for your informative site. |
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| Subject: | You're great |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Feb 1998 |
| clap, clap, clap, standing ovation, bravo! bravo! | |
| Subject: | Kafka |
| Date: | Sun, 08 Feb 1998 |
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If you call your site useless and the people who have visited it lead boring lives, then i must be at the top of your list. I must have been on it a least a dozen times, but this time i felf i had to write. This Kafka site is anything BUT boring! Metamorphsis is one of my favourite books...sure it may be really screwed up, but it's good. Anyway, just wanted to say that, and OH, I AM NOT, I repeate, NOT a BORING person!!! Great Job! Thanks! P.S. nice quote about Einstein! |
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| Subject: | The Metamorphosis |
| Date: | Thu, 05 Feb 1998 |
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I really enjoyed your web site, it helped alot. I am reading the story now and was curious about what other people thought about it. Thanks for the reading. |
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| Subject: | KAFKA |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Jan 1998 |
| HELLO I AM WRITING A PAPER ON KAFKA, "THE METAMORPHOSIS". I PULLED THE STORY OFF AND PRINTED IT SINCE THERE IS NO GOOD LIBRARIES AROUND. IS THIS TEXT THE COMPLETE SHORT STORY? IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE THOUGHTS ON THE STORY LET ME KNOW. | |
| Subject: | thanks |
| Date: | Sat, 13 Dec 1997 |
| Thanks for the thoughts. It helped me a lot! | |
| Subject: | Hello :) |
| Date: | Mon, 01 Dec 1997 |
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Hello Brian... Well, I must say, it was a nice suprise to get a letter from you. I am a senior in high school, and in my Advanced Placement English class, we are studying Kafka's Metamorphosis. My very controversial and often stubborn english teacher insists that Kafka was in fact homosexual, and The Metamorphosis was his way of "coming out", so to speak. I, myself, am unsure as to what to believe. But I think you are right for the most part: it's a rumor that all lovers of Kafka knows exist, but believed only by those who want to read into that way. Anyway, thank you for your reply. And I think it would be neat if you did start a new Kafka chat room association. I can tell it would be quite popular. Thanx again :) |
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| Subject: | THANK YOU! |
| Date: | Mon, 24 Nov 1997 |
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Brian-- I don't know if you get letters like this a lot, but your site was a treMENDous help!!! Thank you (again) so much! |
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| Subject: | Hey there |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Nov 1997 |
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I appreciate your insight on Kafka. I'm not sure, but his work, in some "kafkaesque" manner, altered my perseptions of our current society. I trust by your analysis, he impacted your life as well. I have to go "find the reality behind Metamorphosis" and you work sent me in the right direction. Thanks again. |
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| Subject: | Thanks a bunch |
| Date: | Sat, 15 Nov 1997 |
| Brian, you have been very helpful, thank you. | |
| Subject: | THANK YOU! |
| Date: | Sun, 9 Nov 1997 |
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I just wanted to write you and say thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU sooo much for taking the time to write all of The Metamorphosis and post it! You have no idea how much this has helped me! It's about five 'til twelve Sunday night (or Monday morning, depending on how you look at it), I have a huge Lit Crit paper due tomorrow on The Metamorphosis, and I LOST MY BOOK!!! I had no clue what to do; I was wandering around the internet aimlessly for at least half an hour before I found your website. I can't even BEGIN to tell you how much this means to me--you've SAVED MY LIFE! I have no idea who you are, but I LOVE YOU! THAK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THAK YOU! Well, I've gotta go (I've got a paper to write, you know) but I just wanted to, once again, say THANK YOU!!!!! :-) |
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