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Chapter 66 take an exam

kafka short stories 卡夫卡 708Words 2018-03-20
I'm a servant, but there's no work for me.I'm timid, I'm not in the limelight, I've never even competed with anyone, but that's just one reason I'm doing nothing, and it may have nothing to do with it at all.The principal reason for this, no doubt, was that I was not called to be a servant, as the other servants were, and none of them had such a desire to do something as I did, and perhaps they never even had the desire to be called to work, which I at least had. The time is very strong. Lying like this on the wooden bed in the servants' room, looking at the beams above the ceiling, I fell asleep, woke up, and fell asleep again.Sometimes I just go to the tavern over there, where they sell a kind of sour beer.Sometimes I feel so disgusted that I want to pour the glass of wine, but then I pour it down again.I liked sitting there, because from behind the little shuttered window I could look into the windows of our house across the way without anyone noticing.There was not much to see from there on the street side, I thought, only the windows of the corridor, and not the corridor leading to the master's room.I might be mistaken, though, and there was a man who, without asking him, insisted I was right, and the general impression of the front of the house confirmed it.Those windows are rarely opened.If the window was open, some servant had done it, and he might have bent over the sill and looked down for a while afterward.So that was supposed to be the hallway where he wouldn't get caught.Besides, I don't know those servants either. The servants who always work on it sleep elsewhere, not my room.

Once, when I came to the tavern, there was already a customer sitting in my observation seat.I didn't dare to look over there carefully, and I wanted to turn around and leave as soon as I entered the door.But the guest called me over.He also appeared to be a servant, and I may have seen him somewhere, but never spoke to him. "Why are you leaving? Come sit down and have a drink! I'll pay." So I sat down.He asked me a few questions, but I couldn't answer them, I didn't even understand the questions.So I said, "Maybe you regret buying me a drink now, so I'm leaving." I tried to stand up, but he held me down with his hand across the table and said, "Don't go, it's just a test. Whoever cannot answer these questions will pass the exam."

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