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Daddy issues

Submitted by kieronb on Mon, 2012-02-13 13:50

Daddy issues "At 49, I had become a Kafka character. I am thinking of 'The Judgment,' in which the protagonist's supposedly old and frail father suddenly kicks off his bedclothes and delivers a speech so horrifying, so unexpected, and so perfectly calculated to destroy his son's spirit that his son immediately jumps off a bridge."

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Monday, 13 February 2012 - 1:45pm

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