<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306643233182078976</id><updated>2011-07-28T18:26:56.674-07:00</updated><category term='pisa'/><category term='lucca'/><category term='start of novel narcissus'/><category term='poem'/><category term='italy'/><category term='train'/><title type='text'>k is for kafka</title><subtitle type='html'>and other things...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link 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/&gt;time to start again.&lt;br /&gt;not that anybody reads it, but one day...when im all famous and that shit.&lt;br /&gt;prepare to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Album for the day: &lt;a href="http://www.nodata.tv/2009/09/air-love-2-2009.html"&gt;Air - Love 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just, awesome.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1306643233182078976-3034744781206117652?l=kisforkafka.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/feeds/3034744781206117652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1306643233182078976&amp;postID=3034744781206117652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/3034744781206117652'/><link rel='self' 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term='italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pisa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lucca'/><title type='text'>PWII is for Poetry Written In Italy</title><content type='html'>because public transport bores the shit out of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Old Italy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we blush&lt;br /&gt;blistering under sol&lt;br /&gt;blown by cold noon breeze&lt;br /&gt;grasped by old italy's new embrace&lt;br /&gt;of romance and poverty&lt;br /&gt;and the train moves on&lt;br /&gt;looks freely exchanged&lt;br /&gt;with pretty girls&lt;br /&gt;haughtily betraying their romeos...&lt;br /&gt;bella, bella.&lt;br /&gt;the train moves on&lt;br /&gt;parasols and building sites&lt;br /&gt;rise and blossom from the earth&lt;br /&gt;all the way from pisa to firenze&lt;br /&gt;with a quick-fire ciao-grazie&lt;br /&gt;and the train moves on&lt;br /&gt;another girl smiles&lt;br /&gt;and the train moves on&lt;br /&gt;longing for more&lt;br /&gt;longing for amore&lt;br /&gt;roman farms and lucchesi wharehouses blend seamlessly&lt;br /&gt;as the train moves on&lt;br /&gt;and on&lt;br /&gt;and on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1306643233182078976-3326713039581466818?l=kisforkafka.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/feeds/3326713039581466818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1306643233182078976&amp;postID=3326713039581466818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/3326713039581466818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/3326713039581466818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/2009/02/pwii-is-for-poetry-written-in-italy.html' title='PWII is for Poetry Written In Italy'/><author><name>Tom.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16728120049830557914</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m_8GwGP31Q8/SV0SObcBIbI/AAAAAAAAABo/ldGB-vAXjzI/S220/l_cd7893aff67421ac7683e548d89d1aeb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306643233182078976.post-3589337148550584717</id><published>2009-02-23T10:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T10:08:58.780-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Italy was not in the slightest way homosexual</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;a 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m_8GwGP31Q8/SV0SObcBIbI/AAAAAAAAABo/ldGB-vAXjzI/S220/l_cd7893aff67421ac7683e548d89d1aeb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XLdJB6gSxZ4/SUrZMIcKMjI/AAAAAAAAAAM/J5hUwkTmILw/s72-c/image-upload-7-731581.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306643233182078976.post-4760179769693597802</id><published>2008-11-10T12:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T12:37:24.219-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='start of novel narcissus'/><title type='text'>N is for: Narcissus, chapter one.</title><content type='html'>I could barely move.&lt;br /&gt; My mind had contracted itself into a tennis-ball sized fist of mercury; hovering around at the back of my head. Only the inimitable, but frankly quite logical and well-informed need for water was able to materialise within that floating, metallic sphere. Indeed, Peter (though it may have been someone else) had placed in my hand a litre bottle of the stuff, its label hastily ripped off leaving an endless scar of paper around the pure, clear plastic; it, like me, speckled with dried mud. In my other had was a piece of grass, for a reason that I now do not know; but on it I held my heavy, dumb stare, gripped by the infinity of its textures.&lt;br /&gt; ‘Are you all right, Leon?’ came the far off, meter away call of a girl whose name at this point evades me.&lt;br /&gt; ‘Grass’, I replied in what I expect was a rather pitiful voice ‘grass…and water. I need some water’. A trickle of gold-tinted puke lay like a veil on the floor in front of me, seeping softly into the mud.&lt;br /&gt; ‘You’ve a bottle in your hand, look’ she said wandering off. I felt my hand crush the clumsy plastic beneath it, smooth like silk, but rigid as thick card.&lt;br /&gt; To any observer, my position must have been quite a sight, crouched meekly in the mud, half conscious, half vegetable; surrounded by partially absorbed pools of my own sick and staring into the abyss-like contours of a piece of grass.&lt;br /&gt; ‘I’m gonna be fine, you’re gonna be fine, I’m gonna be…’ sick. Again; and with gilded bile left glimmering on my lips, slowly parasailing down to my chin; I decided I needed to move. Grasping the mud between my fists, it’s layers squirming as worms through the gaps and crevices in my fingers: I fell over. I suppose I should have been glad that I’d narrowly missed a pool of my own digestive liquids, but my spherical prison had decided to turn philosophical, disregarding any of my surroundings. ‘This isn’t what it’s meant to do’ I mused, ‘I should be up dancing, full of energy and idealism, unable to control the euphoria, but here I am, lying in a field, surrounded by my pre-digested, midday lunch’, with that same phrase left repeating in my head, like a never ending, intolerable song: ‘this isn’t what it’s meant to do, this isn’t what it’s meant to do.’&lt;br /&gt; The reds of my tent left glistening patterns across the vacuum of my mind, spiralling behind my eyes.&lt;br /&gt; I have no recollection of how I ended up back in the safety of those four nylon walls, draped in crimson and tinted with pearlescent blues; but I was glad I was there. Intense tingling sensations ran up and down my body like destructive waves rocking a weak wooden boat at sea, and the world outside seemed like an infinity of loud music and shouting voices loitering about on a unending plinth of grass and mud.&lt;br /&gt; I was gripping something, somebody.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1306643233182078976-4760179769693597802?l=kisforkafka.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/feeds/4760179769693597802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1306643233182078976&amp;postID=4760179769693597802' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/4760179769693597802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/4760179769693597802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/2008/11/n-is-for-narcissus-chapter-one.html' title='N is for: Narcissus, chapter one.'/><author><name>Tom.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16728120049830557914</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m_8GwGP31Q8/SV0SObcBIbI/AAAAAAAAABo/ldGB-vAXjzI/S220/l_cd7893aff67421ac7683e548d89d1aeb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306643233182078976.post-842094826602650199</id><published>2008-10-20T10:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T10:19:38.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A is for 'Allo 'Allo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Alloallotitle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Alloallotitle.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;yes, 'allo! i cannot type in a french aczent, it iz very 'ard, you know?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Alors, wat a terrible first post i have done!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;but it iz getting across my point, no?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;bonjour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1306643233182078976-842094826602650199?l=kisforkafka.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/feeds/842094826602650199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1306643233182078976&amp;postID=842094826602650199' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/842094826602650199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1306643233182078976/posts/default/842094826602650199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kisforkafka.blogspot.com/2008/10/is-for-allo-allo.html' title='A is for &apos;Allo &apos;Allo'/><author><name>Tom.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16728120049830557914</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='20' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m_8GwGP31Q8/SV0SObcBIbI/AAAAAAAAABo/ldGB-vAXjzI/S220/l_cd7893aff67421ac7683e548d89d1aeb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
