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Chapter 29 Difficult Enlightenment - A Certain Masochistic Tendency From K's Confessions

K, who is obsessed with secular support, is always so impulsive, anxious, and troubled in his heart, and is always so eager to express his thoughts clearly to the people around him.He thinks that his thinking is clear and impeccable, and he has been greatly wronged. Every time he expresses his grievances to others, he finds that others do not understand his views at all, and even express disgust and fear of his views. The first thing to find out here is what kind of people K is around.Obviously, from the morning when K's case happened, the people around him were no longer self-aware secular people, and they all had relationships with the law to varying degrees.These people who had a relationship with the law immediately showed a tendency to be alienated in K's eyes, and looked at the problem from a standpoint that K could not understand.Since K's way of thinking has not moved, and everything around him has changed, K's righteous words, if viewed from another angle, that is, from the perspective of the law, it seems extremely ridiculous, as if someone is hiding It was as if he was mocking him maliciously from behind.The more impassioned he is, the more absurd his words seem, because the reference has changed completely, into something completely unfamiliar to him, and he doesn't know it yet.Therefore, behind K's words of futile apology, there is a viciously smiling face, which reveals an expression of extremely happy because of self-torture.

The first vindication occurred between K and the landlady's wife. K was inexplicably arrested, and he was going to veto the matter in front of the landlady.He started high-pitched, full of expectations of persuasion, but was completely discouraged by the landlady's reaction.In fact, the landlady wanted to protect K from the bottom of her heart. She understood the essence of what had happened, and felt sorry for K's situation. K was irritated by her sympathy.Who is in the dark?K of course. And why did K lose his temper so easily?Probably because of the doubts in my heart.No one would look at what happened from K's standpoint, except himself.

The most wonderful defense is K's defense in court. In the eyes of those wily judges, K is a disgusting clown. ; Moreover, they still don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth, and openly criticize the institutions that initiated the law. If this is not fainting, what is it?For the supreme law, what is the difference between a painter and a banker?Is there anything more absurd than what K said?So the court got into an uproar because of these words, and everyone laughed so hard that they bent over and their foreheads were all messed up.After laughing, there was only incomparable contempt for him left.This brutal farce by an invisible director ended quietly.We couldn't help sighing: This is really the ultimate self-humor!The humor has reached the point of masochism.

It was such a K who actually looked down on the old defendant Brock, thinking for no reason that he had some kind of superiority over Brock, but in fact, he was already dying.Bullock was very aware of K's situation in his heart, and perhaps he regarded K's attitude as some kind of hypocrisy, so he hated and despised him extremely.He lectured K viciously and told him the truth, but K didn't understand!This is really a big joke! It is sad that K. is so ignorant that he is joking with his own life.Then he defended himself before the priest, and attacked the court, so that the priest, in his rage, forgot his duty, and cried out.The priest's exclamation was both anger and pity.Zheng Zheng, whose eyes were covered with a cloth, couldn't see what was about to happen at all, and insisted on performing the farce to the end.But what he can't see is about to experience.

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