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...Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...
...about as much time to write as you think it must be taking me to write it none of your business anyway how long it takes for me to write this like I said last week read the Real Paper or Harry's column Chris in the library Pollak's roommate the wise guy didn't say vomit he said garbage which is different and therefore offended me what did it do to you sent you to Shangrila I doubt it strongly coulda used a period there but I'm already in this way over my head how's your...
...Pollak, 65, a Polish-born Jew who is now a New York hotel electrician, vividly remembers those horrible events of Aug. 27, 1941. Pollak ran from the scene and managed to escape the massacre that befell his family and their Jewish neighbors in the East Galician town of Urice. For years he lived alone with his nightmare, but now it is known to millions of Dutch citizens-as is their fellow countryman, Millionaire Art Collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten, 77. Last week Dutch and Swiss police finally cornered the fleeing Menten and his wife in a hotel near Zurich. Found...
...been accumulating evidence against Menten for decades, alerted the Dutch press and, once again, the government. The press, led by Hans Knoop, editor of the weekly magazine Accent, and journalists of a television current-affairs program, Aktua TV* launched an investigative effort on a scale rarely seen in Europe. Pollak and another witness to the Urice killings were found; later, interviews were made with townspeople in East Galicia who identified Menten and described other killings in a neighboring village. Menten, denying all, was confronted, on live television, with the evidence...
...group of Harvard physics graduate students who devised a system last summer to beat the Massachusetts state lottery voted last week to dissolve their association, Greg Pollak, a group shareholder, said yesterday...