olive watching me watch the beast and talking to the screen in exasperation. she's like, why don't you just can it? now i read metamorphoses, in search of franz kafka, about the metamorphosis and the pandemic and how the story resonates today, and then in think about how we have the war on terror and the the pandemic and the genocide and mass extinction all together all the time. we desperately need stories now. stories might save us. kafka tapped into that need like he saw through what was happening in his lifetime to what was coming.