• @darthelmet
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    98 hours ago

    Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      34 hours ago

      Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.

      • @feedum_sneedson
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        13 hours ago

        Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?