"Seussian" I cannot.

I do not like it.

Credit will be given.

He calls the Kurt's witticisms "Von-nuggets" or something like that. There really should be a term.

@9: That's a great essay.

@10: L, as the kids say, OL.

@1 But, do you like green eggs and ham?

A word can mean something that is separate than the person it was named for. In physics, "Newtonian" doesn't mean "related to Newton" nor does "Euclidian", mean "related to Euclid".

Is it that weird that Kafkaesque could ean something different than "written by kafka"? The word wouldn't mean much if it only refered to things written by Kafka rather than things with the bizarre qualities that make things "kafkaesque".

In the end, if you want to understand Kafka in your own way, you're going to have to learn some German and read it in the original...

Now let's you remember this: The Beatles were never "Beatlesque." There was no such thing as "Beatlesque" until the advent of Our Musical Saviors. Remember you that basic objective fact.

Having said that, if Kafka was so great, how come you can't buy his books in a supermarket?

Once you grasp that, sure, Kafka can write things that are not Kafkaesque. I doubt that his shopping lists were Kafkaesque, though I suppose it is possible.