Sunday, January 15, 2006

The Law and the Guilt

I have always failed when I try put in words the meaning of two sentences from 'The Trial.' Perhaps I do not want the world to know what I feel about these sentences, or perhaps I have never met anyone who shares the same feelings with these sentences:

'There is always an attraction between the law and the guilt.'

'An accused person is always attractive such that he can be easily identified even in a crowd.'

I don't know whether the sentences are the same. But these are enough to feel guilty.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Rajiv,

What Kafka writes is very interesting. You have captured it as if one was waiting on a lone bus-stop and some pedestrian stopped by and said it and vanished into the dust.