Not P but DFW on Kafka

[Mark Kohut]

admit as acceptable or possible.
"he was reluctant to countenance the use of force"

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 1:52 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has
> Been Removed":
>
> The students usually end up engaged here, which is great; but the teacher
> still sort of writhes with guilt, because the
> comedy-as-literalization-of-metaphor tactic doesn’t begin to countenance
> the deeper alchemy by which Kafka’s comedy is always also tragedy, and this
> tragedy always also an immense and reverent joy.
>
> What does "countenance" mean here?
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