K. at his Desk

        o associates. Or    and kind.

        telep also a duit for sooto o t.

        cs ("Yes," "No") in ers of t ly irritated air for neors, neies. ime sending and receiving messengers.

        "I spend my time sending and receiving messen?gers," ;Some of tant. Ot."

        Described by Secretaries

        A: "Quite frankly I ts a lot of t ts are tial. I even t fet delib?erately, to leave y to get rid of unimportaails. And ;

        B: "On me. You kno. I al, and I     bunculips Id ever seen in my life. And tulips too. tanding tulips, smiling."

        Behe Bar

        At a croy, o make cer. tle of Scotg. tender, a small man in a beige uniform    buttons, politely asks K. to return to ts side, of t;You let oender says.

        K. Reading the Neer

        ions are impossible to catalogue. Ofte amuses e involving, say, a fireman    record-breaking speed to tories are clipped, carried about in a pocket, to be produced at appropriate moments for tations please    of as terrible statistics, quoting t;e must do somet; Important as often fol?loimes ter of wo kinds of responses may be, on a given day, inexplicably reversed.)

        trivial aspects of temization are skipped. ains a rapid drumming of ips on top.    of these, only four are regarded as serious.

        Attitude toward his ork

        "Sometimes I t seem to do anyt seems to me an insur?mountable obstacle, really out of read look at it, ake . Perry to read it but my mind is elseo get t of it, it seems meaningless, devoid of i, not o do , everyto do it, o t of it, proceed mec t it is simply a matter of moving from oep to t, plo. I bee ied, I bee ex?cited, I , to place, I am exed, amazed t to me."

        Sleeping on tones of Unknoowns (Rim?baud)

        K. is    familiar sligreets of a small city in France ermany. ters izens mutter to tuosity a mixture of languages. K. is very ied, looks closely at everyt tempo of street life, tizens t t are ter needs?

        "In t, ly gai luncell you t;

        ters.

        tall bald cook, -s, grinning the wall.

        " cook looking at me?"

        Urban transportation

        "transportation problems of our cities and t ur?gent and ed transportation problems ?fronting try. In ted and industrialized areas, people are depe on a system of transportation t is at onplex and ie. Obsolete facilities and groies and preseies offer little prospect of relief."

        K. Peed h Sadness

        of the building.

        to fades into the wall.

        urns on    is, on he room.

        Karstawa

        "e sent a man to Karstaold    . And old ed to set up a sitting for K. sometime in June, if t    for    o    s, t    knoly entatively said    o kno varied from sitter to sitter. less and t made it difficult to get just t s.    iing t , t one. o see, ;

        Dress

        ly dressed in a ma does not call attention to itself. ts are soberly cut and in dark colors.    at all times present an aspect of fres to sustain because of frequent movements from place to plader ?ditions    favorable. tly, especially ss. In t many times. tra ss about, in boxes.

        "s?"

        A Friend ents: K.s Aloneness

        "to realize about K. is t essentially ely alone in terrible loneliing too close to    es from somet kno o get to kno of people    all along you really didnt know    all.

        "s. I remember once    in a small boat. K. of course ain. So    pig up a landing and I said to    I didnt t looked at me. t s for. "

        K. on Crowds

        "ted crowds and vivacious crowds.

        "Sometimes, standing ticular es times you only find out after a quarter of an    sort of croicular crowd is.

        "And you t speak to tions o be taken into at. You o say someto t is meaningful to t mood."

        Gallery-going

        K. enters a large gallery on Fifty-seve, in te includes sev?eral ladies alemen. orks by a geometricist are on s tical paintings.

        "ell, at least we know ;

        ter. People repeat to one another, laughing.

        tist, wanding bered.

        K. Puzzled by his Children

        t four, a boy, tly older, and a little girl, very beautiful, s on tric train, a picture book, a red ball, a plastic bucket, a plastic shovel.

        K. fro tress issues from no source immediately available to t, a general anguisurns to tanding nearby    toriously poor observer.

        "Play ; he says.

        ten quietly suggests t K. ;play ;

        K. picks up ture book and begins to read to t text. It    beor. heless K. perseveres.

        "A ist der Affe, er isst mit der Pfote." ("A is ts ;)

        tinues.

        A Dream

        e trees.

        Oveready stream of strange aircraft wcs, bread boards, cookie ss, ders.

        truments are on to plete the bombing of Sidi-Madani.

        A farm in the hills.

        Matters (from an Administrative Assistant)

        "A lot of matters t o a    about t time, moved to t burely o take care of. And    find K. Nobody k    put togetanding around o do. e ting pretty nervous because t ;

        Ceacher

        " boy, very brig udies, very tious. But ts not unusual; t describes a good number of ts not unusual, t is, to find ties ies t     K. , t to display it for fear of seeming soft, girlis in K. ticular attribute    say t it    ceristic."

        Speaking to No O aiters, he --

        "t;

        "tafel."

        "t;

        "t;

        "tters."

        K. Explains a teique

        "Its an expedient in terms of    to destroy a situation ating, ain, o break it up if it appears t tuation ation period, into one    quite    t I mean is t in tantly altering (usually for    to give t youre not cicular situation particularly closely, t youre paying no special attention to it, until youre ready to make your move. t is, its best to be sudden, if you    ma. Of course you t do t all time. Sometimes youre just pletely , ed out, totaled, and to do is s about it."

        K. on his Own Role

        "Sometimes it seems to me t it doesnt matter    it is enougo exist, to sit some?o be seen ts. At otimes, Im a ot num?ber of oted by o do, t I y, as    possible use of alents Ive been given, for t is not enougo sit in t garden, ful or pleasurable it miguations t demand careful, reasoned and intelligent a. In Latin America, for example."

        As Entrepreneur

        t estimates for burying t    tretemps o s dangers for tly miscal?culations, which are viewed in many minds as in?excusable.

        ;Exceptionally difficult rock ?ditions."

        ith Young People

        K., reets of unknoos, narroo ting on ts, tars, small radios, long    on to back, uro stare. tand implacably on street ers, in door in small groups at t place reets are filled ed i, refuse to declare treet after street tains t number, more displayed as ourns a er, rank upon rank stretco tance, draaring.

        er, Poulet

        "For Poulet, it is not enougo speak of seizing t. It is ration of, and I quote, reizing in tay aaco tence.

        " Poulet is describing is ion but rat    aken up t o discover t may be called t Poulet in fact calls the Marivaudian being.

        "to Poulet, a pastless futureless man, born ane every in?stant. tants are points    ant is tant, not tory. Not antly surprised.    predict ion to events. antly being overtaken by events. A dition of breat surrounds s in a certain fres, quoting Marivaux, describes very ;

        K. Saved from Drowning

        K. in ter.    black , ains    ter    e foam, t over ter. . No, it ap?pears t .     I , braced against a rock. K. noer. ands nohe bank, gasping.

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