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(17,111 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2013, 02:45 AM Sep 2013

Kafka Shows Up in a Toilet Paper Commercial

In perhaps the strangest literary cameo of the year, a Franz Kafka book surfaced in a commercial for Charmin toilet paper.

In a series of interviews with animated bears about their bathroom habits, one young bear holds up a copy of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and remarks, “Sometimes I like to bring a book.” We’ve embedded the video below–what do you think?
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/kafka-shows-up-in-a-toilet-paper-commercial_b75939

Personally, I like to read Kirkegaard.