1. K tells the prison chaplain he feels like he can trust him, because he is friendlier than the other members of the Court.

[Note that since the prison chaplain has told K. that "the proceedings gradually merge with the judgment" his being prison chaplain kind of makes him sound like master of the entire universe that K is in, or at least that ( Read more... )

(Couldn't find a picture of those eyes.) The Trial is feeling more and more like Emerson, to me, and I haven't even reached "In the Cathedral" yet, though "Before the Law" I virtually have memorized - like the scattered paragraphs I sew together into my Emerson, anyway. Only these can explain the guilt of innocence:

Where do we find ourselves? In ( Read more... )

Just reread "In the Penal Colony" for the first time as a grownup. Am I overreading, or are the final lines suggesting that the Intellectuals ultimately abandon the People to the potential reemergence of murderous Tradition - perhaps out of the desire to ignore ground-level reality because they're traveling promiscuously among more interesting ( Read more... )