daniil's Journal: Metamorphosis

One morning, when Daniil woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Franz Kafka..

Important questions

[nizo]

Just two actually: are you happy with who you are, and will I ever remember that the gimp icon is animated so that when the eyes move it won't freak me out?

Re:Important questions

[daniil]

are you happy with who you are

It (ie that I'm a three-legged duck) was difficult to accept at first: I kept trying to rip the antlers off (ducks don't grow antlers or the third leg until they grow up) and it hurt like hell, the third leg was always getting in the way and so on. But as I slowly grew accustomed to it, I discovered that having a third leg wasn't all that bad: for instance, I could scratch my nose without taking my hands off the keyboard. Am I happy with it? I don't know. I don't think I can

Hmnn...

[Ethelred Unraed]

Is this like the transformation in "Orlando", only in reverse?

Cheers,

Ethelred

PS: Welcome back.

Re:Hmnn...

[daniil]

It's like the transformation in "Orlando", only purely fictional.

Absurdity

[mercedo]

Since it's absurd...welcome back.

Re:Absurdity

[daniil]

Someday, when I'm older and wiser, I'll write a book (or at least a doctoral thesis) about Literature, Religion* and the Absurd.

* I've lately been reading the works of Nikolay Berdyaev [chebucto.ns.ca]; that's also where I got this idea from. He's of the mind that the only thing that Religion (in his case, Christianity) is the only source of true freedom. The absurdity of the belief in God (clearly, it cannot be explained) is what sets you free. The Absurd is the only thing that's real.