Each chapter in Kafka’s Motorbike is dedicated to a Progressive Rock track. Here’s the complete list (selected entry-level tracks are hyperlinked): Track Artist Album Year
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In Chapter Thirty (Decision/Indecision) JP introduces Eddie to a conceptual get-out-of-jail-free card called Determinism, which appears to absolve him from all of his misdeeds and
In Chapter Sixty-Five (Long Distance Runaround), Eddie insists that his impending death in an art gallery fire must cause an inevitable public outcry. A refutation
In Chapter Eighteen (Down through the Night) Julian Date criticises Eddie’s mural in the new pizza house. ‘I realised it was going to be a
In Chapter Eight (Thick as a Brick) Eddie ridicules the abstract works hung around the Art classroom. There was no fairytale ending… Once upon a
In Chapter Two (Yours is no Disgrace), Andy introduces the newly-arrived Eddie to the concept of Illith: ‘I guess it’s kinda like the frustration a
In Chapter Fourteen (Dharma for One) Eddie becomes intrigued by the image of a youth’s head he finds in a leaflet: “It was a monochrome
Chapter Twenty-One (One of Those People) takes place in the Student Union’s pool hall when Andy raises the topic of Communism’s Historic Inevitability, something certain
In Chapter Forty (Bringing it Back), Brian the university librarian took exception to his fellow staff attempting to deal with books that couldn’t be classified,
In Chapter Sixty-Nine (The Prisoner Eight by Ten) two policemen interview the suspect Albert W. Tucker. Their approach involves a simplified version of a paradox