Not P but DFW on Kafka

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Off the top of my non-native speaker's head: "perceive", "consider",
"take into account", "understand", "take into view", perhaps "confront"?

Am 17.11.2022 um 07:52 schrieb Mike Jing:
>  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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