In Franz Kafka’s "Before the Law", a man from the country seeks admission to the Law. He can see through the open door into the house of the Law but the doorkeeper refuses him entry-and warns him that this is just the first of many doors and doorkeepers, each more forbidding and terrifying than the last.
But the man is convinced that his salvation lay in the Law and year after year he comes to the door, asking and answering questions, looking for permission to enter. He even tries to bribe and flatter his way in. The doorkeeper takes the bribes bu
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