Olive Palestine, Cats for Peace.

 In The Castle, finally, the protagonist is neither persecuted nor expelled: he is simply kept out. Power exists, but it cannot be reached. It is present everywhere and accessible nowhere.

Ismaele

 He did not foresee a regime. He foresaw a condition. And that condition, even today, is the unsettling feeling of being able to enter a process without knowing when, how, or why we will emerge from it.

Kafka does not describe monsters. He describes systems.

-Ismaele

 this is post 49,909. there's something rather magical about duration, gnome sane.

 We are faced with a power we cannot comprehend.

 The day after memorial day the empire wars continue.

 Wherever hope and change meet is the epicenter of the empire.