assorted questions

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     Diana's catalog of questions ends:
     
     >Finally, I was purchasing a gift in a SoCal behemoth retail outlet 
     >when something about my check-out girl's features struck me as 
     >familiar.  I looked down at her name tag and found that I was being 
     >waited on by a Kafka. Yes, she said, she was a relation of his (with 
     >the nose and eyebrows to prove it I might add). Question: was the 
     >moment Kafkaesque?  Pynchonian?  Rabelaisian?  Marxist?
     >Southern Californian?
     
     Well, having just purchased a newly-minted "graphic novel" 
     biography of Herr K. by David Zane Mairowitz, with wonderful 
     illustrations by the P-list's golden boy, R. -- I cast my vote for 
     Crumb-y.
     
     C.