The Castle

Kafka's The Castle ends mid-sentence. Is this bad grammar or a statement about the fragmented nature of human reality? Is it a comment on time itself, a critique of chronology, of time moving forward? Is it a protest against action and classic notions of narrative? If you've been in any conversation or for that matter read any letter or email, you may have pushed back at the fact that the correspondent can't get to the point. People spend too much time looking for an ending, a way to stop talking or writing. Have you ever listened to someone going on and on, simply because they couldn't find a way to wrap things up? Could Kafka's message be simply "get to the point, Mac?" So what if you have to stop in the middle of a sentence.

listen to "I Love to Love" by Tina Charles (1975)