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*On Kafka* Those of us seeking the truth find we must always dissemble. We navigate our way to the right office or to the headquarters itself by way of many detours, many encounters with strangers who seem to want to help us but may in fact not want to. Maps are out of date and of not much use because the roads and alleys we access are always being torn up and reconstructed. We even find great gaps in the walls that had been intended to protect us from invaders from the north, from the south, from in fact any direction at all. And doors that once stood open to us are closed, their guardians no longer allowing us to enter. Outside, it is foggy and dark, and it seems like years since we have even seen the light of the sun, heard the splashing of water in what were once the most glorious fountains to be seen and heard anywhere in the known world. Priests and judges and doctors we once trusted with our souls, our liberties and our lives now stood arrayed against us, full of anger at . . . well, who knows what? The walls constructed to keep us safe seem now intended to keep us in. The tools of our trades, now turned against us, bury themselves in our flesh, our guts, our bones, writing the truth of their truth in the dark, secret places where only others can read. The clattering apparatus drowns our thoughts in a racket of its own; the tunnels by which we hoped to escape serve only to admit our tormenters. Confined in cells that barely allow us to stand, we call out to any who might be near. Our names reduced to single letters, and yet we now eagerly share them. Serving the tri-state area. Hal Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] Truck: https://plus.google.com/106252913724243142175 http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/ <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> Remains To Be Seen <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>*, Remains To Be Seen (Vol. II) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,** Remains To Be Seen (Vol. III) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Sonnets from the Basque & Other Poems <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/> *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Obras Públicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets<http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets> ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones<http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1> ; **Tango Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **Theory of Harmony<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf> ; **Rapsodie espagnole<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf> ; **Guide to the Tokyo Subway<http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3> ; **The Sonnet Project<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf> ; **G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>; **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html> ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html> ; **Transparencies & Projections<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html> *