Kafka's crap friend
Do you have any real friends? There are certain simple tests you can apply. On my old blog (the one in Spanish), which I have been increasingly tempted to revive over the past five days, I described one of these, the Cow Test, which, like this one, also allows you to determine whether a particular person is an individualist or a collectivist. I might get on to that later, if I can stay awake long enough. But the Kafka's Crap Friend test is, to my mind, the definitive one. It's also a reason, if you want one, to feel extremely lonely, since if you are anything like me you will find an approximate total of 0 people in your own social circle, with a small margin of error, who pass the test with flying colours. It goes like this. (I am quoting from Wiki simply to save a few keystrokes): Kafka's unfinished works, including his novels Der Process , Das Schloss and Amerika (also known as Der Verschollene , The Man Who Disappeared ), were ordered by Kafka to be destroye...