“Don’t shout like that!”, called out K., unable to prevent himself, and, as he looked anxiously in the direction from which the servitor would come, he gave Franz a shove, not hard, but hard enough for him to fall down unconscious, clawing at the ground with his hands by reflex; he still did not avoid being hit; the rod still found him on the floor; the tip of the rod swang regularly up and down while he rolled to and fro under its blows. And now one of the servitors appeared in the distance, with another a few steps behind him. K. had quickly thrown the door shut, gone over to one of the windows overlooking the yard and opened it. The screams had completely stopped. So that the servitor wouldn’t come in, he called out, “It’s only me!” “Good evening, chief clerk,” somebody called back. “Is there anything wrong?” “No, no,” answered K.

“it’s only a dog yelping in the yard.”

So these were the lawyer’s methods, which K. fortunately had not been exposed to long enough, to let the client forget about the whole world and leave him with nothing but the hope of reaching the end of his trial by this deluded means.

He was no longer a client, he was the lawyer’s dog. If the lawyer had ordered him to crawl under the bed as if it were a kennel and to bark out from under it, then he would have done so with enthusiasm.

But the hands of one of the gentleman were laid on K.’s throat, while the other pushed the knife deep into his heart and twisted it there, twice. As his eyesight failed, K. saw the two gentlemen cheek by cheek, close in front of his face, watching the result.

“Like a dog!” he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.

Kafka’s absurd reality treats a dog as a man and a man as a dog. The world of doors and where the word of men guards the door. They stand tall in the claustrophobic and mysterious containers of justice. No door was left ajar to let the man breathe freely. K. is Born free but everywhere he turns he faces a wall with a door to it that leads to another door with a wall to it. — Akira.

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