{"id":3578,"date":"2019-09-28T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/28\/was-sisyphus-a-bachelor\/"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T12:20:01","slug":"was-sisyphus-a-bachelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/28\/was-sisyphus-a-bachelor\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Sisyphus a Bachelor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirjasto.sci.fi\/kafka.htm\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Franz Kafka&#0160;ruminates in this 1922 diary entry on the problem of procreation and dreams of a bourgeois rootedness that probably would have suffocated him:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The infinite, deep, warm, saving happiness of sitting beside the cradle of one\u2019s child opposite its mother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There is also in it something of this feeling: matters no longer rest with you, unless you wish it so. In contrast, this feeling of those who have no children: it perpetually rests with you, whether you will or no, every moment to the end, every nerve-racking moment, it perpetually rests with you, and without result. Sisyphus was a bachelor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(<strong>Franz Kafka<\/strong>: <strong>The Diaries 1910-1923<\/strong>, ed. Max Brod, New York: Schocken, 1975, p. 401.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a489eab2200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kafka\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a489eab2200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a489eab2200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Kafka\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Kafka&#0160;ruminates in this 1922 diary entry on the problem of procreation and dreams of a bourgeois rootedness that probably would have suffocated him: The infinite, deep, warm, saving happiness of sitting beside the cradle of one\u2019s child opposite its mother. There is also in it something of this feeling: matters no longer rest with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/28\/was-sisyphus-a-bachelor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was Sisyphus a Bachelor?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}