Not P but DFW on Kafka

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all for replying.


On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 8:11 AM Darah Kehnemuyi <darahk1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>     I think in this instance "countenance" means "accept".  In other
> contexts it can have different meanings or flavors, like "put up with".
>       D.
>
> On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 01:52:26 AM EST, 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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