I feel like there are multiple things to 'get' in Kafka, like that essay where Wallace brings out his 'jokes', yet says he has to backtrack and be like, no, it's not all a joke. I felt like I just picked out one aspect to talk about when I led conference. God, what is it with teaching Kafka and people killing themselves?

Dark...but comedic. Yeah, I dunno.

Hahaha. He does try to reach something a bit more universal than his own life in the book, I'm sure, but....he's just such a hipster. Or, I guess he's the generation before hipsters, but so taken with his own coolness, yet neurotically self-aware of it, likes obscure music, hates the Man, but is really much more conventional than he could possibly realize...