Kafka Makes You More Patriotic - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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But does reading Kafka threaten our sense of meaning? To find out, researchers had participants read either the parable “An Imperial Message,” about a hopeless messenger and his futile mission, or the “Tortoise and the Hare,” the Aesop classic about why it’s good to be slow and steady. And also why hares are jerks.
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The theory is that when a person’s sense of meaning has been challenged by something uncanny, he or she clings more tightly to “another meaning framework,” as the authors put it, even if that alternate framework is completed unrelated.
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