3/6/22 Victor
Woke up at 5:12, again at 6?? and for good at 9. Went to bed at 12:03 yesterday. Sister + Dad making sugar cookies.
To Do: IFR 12 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 31 32 33 34 35 41 42 43, Final
SH JdB projet finale, source primaire, artifact historique
SCI Organism
Math 3 4

"Read a few sentences of Kafka aloud," Brod wrote in a review in 1921, "and your tongue and your breath will feel a sweetness never experienced before. The cadences, the breaks, seem to follow mysterious laws; the little pauses between phrases have an architecture of ther own, a melody is heard that has its roots in other material than that of this earth. It is perfection, simply perfection. But it is perfection on the move, on the march, at the double even.

The word 'Kafkaesque' is an invention, but it is precisely this 'Kafkaesque' which Kafka detested and fought most violently. Kafkaesque is that which Kafka was not! He loved the natural, pure, good, and constructive, not the oddly-eerie, hopeless, not the strange that he always percieves and notes as a given in this world... this tender yet steel-like soul was not turned to destruction but to blossoming.

Projet finale steps
german society in post-war period
birth of expressionism - der blaue rider + the prague circle + Nietzsche
Dr. Caligari
Der Student von Prague
definition and themes of expressionism + examples in films

SH talk about Hiroshima + Nagasaki C + 'ethical dimension', X + economics, S + nationalism. bombing in terms of science did scientists agree because they hated japan or maybe because it was a chance for scientific discovery. can scientists be to blame for doing their job (yes) Mme said it was 'chilling'

It's not about outward appearences but inward significance. A grandeur in the world but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.

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