Showing posts with label Second Response. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Response. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Helsinki Group C - Tory, Ua, Hetta: Second Repsonse to Amsterdam Keyword 'Falhanco'

And now, a small tribute to the more positive side of failure (drawing a connection to yet another keyword, 'beauty'), as quoted from Walter Benjamin's writings in Franz Kakfa: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death.

"To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure. The circumstances of this are manifold. One is tempted to say: once he was certain of eventual failure, everything worked out for him en route as in a dream. There is nothing more memorable than the fervor with which Kafka emphasized his failure."