Faterh Inire Theory cont.

Jerry Friedman · 14 Dec 2010, 00:58 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:58:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.
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From: David Duffy davidD at qimr.edu.au

[/The Trial/]

> My memory of the book was pretty distant, as I had thought some court 
>supplicant families had waited generations in a waiting room.
> When I looked over an online copy last night, the analogies were less direct. 
>a) People (eg the usher and his wife) live in the court
> anteroom when the court is not in session -- then they move their furniture 
>out, except for the washtub ;). The court is in the ramshackle
> attics of a tenement building. b) Supplicants are always waiting in a long 
>corridor, even when the court is not in session. c) When K.
> opens the door of the junk room at his bank, he finds the _whip man_ punishing 
>the two police who arrested K., for corruption (one of
> them ate K.'s breakfast) ; d) The story of the Doorkeeper, where the 
>protagonist waits outside the door of the Law to be let in, for the
> entire length of his life.

Thanks.? I can see definite similarities.? Of course, there's also?the 
possibility of young Wolfe sitting in a waiting room and thinking, or saying,
"You could spend your life here.? I mean, you could have babies and grow old and 
die here.? And then your kids could carry on after you..."

Jerry Friedman


      
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