A Bird on the Wing Posted on 02/18/2020 by Michael Gray I always took Kafka’s phrase, “A bird went in search of a cage,” as referring to the human tendency to feel anxious with too...
No Choice Posted on 01/09/2019 by Michael Gray “The overall ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ charge which different emotions seem to have is due to the relative percentages of their more subtle ‘positive’, ‘negative’...
Which World are we Talking about? Posted on 11/20/2018 by Michael Gray “In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” Franz Kafka, Great Wall of China, Aphorism 50, Page 171 This is one...
Waving to the Other Side Posted on 06/19/2018 by Michael Gray In times of yore (long before I was born), writers who set out to explore the mysteries of the past would invoke the Muse...
What our Big Sister can teach us Posted on 08/30/2017 by Michael Gray “Nature may well manifest its own forms of knowledge, apart from the knowledge that human beings lay claim to. For instance, we use the...
“The Hunger Artist” (a TSK fable). Posted on 02/24/2015 by Michael Gray At first glance, Franz Kafka’s haunting story “The Hunger Artist” gives a dismal account of time (he dies fasting), of space (he lives in...