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Chapter 39 A contest of two wills (6)

1. Strange Uncle Uncle was very strange indeed. K regards him as a devil from the past life, which shows that K has long been vaguely aware of some mysterious elements in him.At first the uncle hurried to the city, broke into K.'s office, and immediately asked K. about his case.He appears in the guise of the unknowing.He was so angry that he only wanted to save the situation immediately.When K finally told him: "This is not an ordinary case", his uncle's mood and attitude changed fundamentally immediately.He became an insider, he was no longer in a hurry to find out the details of the case, but directly considered various countermeasures for K.He seemed very sophisticated when discussing the court, and fully estimated all possibilities; he also had ulterior motives when he suggested K take refuge in the countryside; he was also very good at mobilizing K's attention and grasping his secret emotions.Finally, he and K reached an agreement after quarreling and went to his friend, Barrister Huld.All this happened before K told him the details of the case, which made people suspect that the uncle was the insider from the beginning.Moreover, he himself claimed to have guessed what had happened when he received his daughter's letter.Then his initial yelling and persecution had only one purpose: to force K to see the seriousness of the case and go all out to deal with the case instead of procrastinating and evading with self-deception.He and K quickly switched places.He no longer cared what K had to say, but educated him instead.He said that the case was terrible, that this kind of case was a sudden outbreak after accumulating for a long time, and the only possibility for a person to encounter this kind of bad luck was to actively participate in it, and he must not use an indifferent attitude to make the case worse.The puns my uncle used when he spoke were all of French grace.When K was still hesitating, he involuntarily dragged K to the legal side, under the guise of saving K and getting K out of the lawsuit as soon as possible.Everything was done so discreetly, so logically (the law is inherently reasonable), and K had no choice but to obey.It was not until a long time later that K realized that he had been dragged into the water by the old uncle ("Drag' staying here is also very suspicious).

Whenever K falls into a certain situation and is unconscious and unwilling, Fa will send an envoy to emphasize this situation to K, dispel his hesitation and illusions, make him down-to-earth, and let him "accept his fate" , this kind of acceptance of fate is not the usual passive acceptance of fate, but something else.The busy uncle woke K up from his drunken dream, and took on the role of guardian as before—a very advanced guardianship.After thoroughly criticizing K's luck, he brought K to the home of his real mentor, the barrister.Thus, by means of this half-coercive, half-voluntary method, K once again came face-to-face with the French.In this way, the uncle is not only K's protector in life, but also his ideological protector.Although K is an adult and financially independent, who can guarantee that he will not go astray ideologically?The uncle who likes to take care of everything has a very clear mind. He knows that everything depends on K's willingness, and the driving force for success lies entirely in K himself.That's why he debated with K, mobilizing K's energy and self-confidence through the debate to meet a new round of challenges.This superficially rude uncle is actually rough and subtle, and he knows things like a god.His performance at the lawyer's house further proves this.

The uncle had an old friendship with the lawyer, and now he was bringing him important business. Of course, there was even more reason to break into the lawyer's house without saying hello, and he also had a reason to find fault with everything impolitely.At first, the lawyer didn't know the "business" he brought, and seemed listless.At this time, the uncle had a dispute with the nurse, and he wanted to blame her.There was a conspiracy behind this strange behavior of his, and he wanted to make K. focus on the nurse instead of the lawyer.He didn't show his hole card until he almost got into a stalemate: he came for K's business.The lawyer immediately cheered up, got up from the bed, and his illness was gone, because he knew that the business brought by his uncle was not an ordinary business, and he said that he was willing to risk his life for this case.Then the director of the court office appeared in the room.The lawyer, the uncle, and the director immediately got together to discuss legal matters, in fact planning K's fate.They intentionally left K aside, and K fell into his uncle's tricks and fooled around with the nurse Leni.On the one hand, there is a life-and-death discussion for rescuing K, and on the other hand, the rescued object and the female nurse are rolling on the carpet in the lawyer's office. What a vivid display of human survival!From the very beginning, my uncle has been secretly working hard to realize the spirit of the Fa, that is, to make the Fa a reality, and that's why he kept his eye on the female nurse.Now it is clear what uncle took K to the lawyer's house for: let him get entangled with the law, and let his human "weakness" be brought into full play.This is also what all "cases" are about.

Although K fell into his uncle's trap, or fooled around with the female nurse at his request, K still couldn't see through his uncle at all.The scheming old man waited at the door, rushed forward as soon as K. came out, grabbed him, and gave him a savage lesson.On the surface, he said a lot of foul language to blame K, but in fact his purpose is difficult to see through.If we understand it from the perspective of the law, these words can almost be regarded as a high praise for K!Who can be as bold and aggressive as K?Who can dare to face the law and commit crimes like him?He even sneaked into the barrister's house and got under the nose of the law?Of course, his uncle didn't just praise K blindly; he exposed K's bad deeds mainly to let K understand what kind of crime his crime was, and threatened him with that terrible future again, urging him to do his best to save himself. .

After clarifying his uncle's relationship with Fa, his series of strange behaviors can be explained.From the very beginning, he rushed into the office as usual, ignoring K's daily work, in order to show him that now only law is K's only job, and everything else will go to hell.Then he feigned (or might be really) nervous and asked K to tell the truth; when questioning K, he was extremely serious in order to emphasize the supremacy of the law and to make K less pretentious and face the matter head-on.Including his tentative proposal to K to hide in the countryside later, he also made K understand again through the aggressive method: the law cannot be avoided, and he must fight with all his strength alone. After K agreed with his uncle, the uncle took him to join the lawyer.He said the lawyer was a "poor man's lawyer," that is, he defended only those who needed it most.The uncle's series of actions was to tell K: He cannot leave the law for a moment now, and taking immediate action to defend himself is the only way out.After mobilizing K's emotions, all the conditions were ripe, and they got in the car and rushed to the lawyer's house like lightning.When K mistakenly thinks that he wants to discuss the case face-to-face with the lawyer, his uncle uses tricks to send him to the nurse Leni.Because abstract discussions are meaningless to K, K's most urgent task at the moment is to go to the nurse's side to play.That is to say, he only experiences the subject of discussion in the midst of the crime.After K and Leni had played their best, the uncle waited outside the door cunningly in order to scold K.Later he no longer appeared, he completed the task of guardianship.

Doesn't it overcomplicate him to see his uncle in this way?Maybe what he did was not intentional, but he just fulfilled the mysterious duty of the law, that is to say, he was a puppet dispatched by the law.But isn't the result still the same?People's subjective intentions are irrelevant, what is worth pursuing is life; and life itself is a complex detective novel.Only those who have experienced vicissitudes and have not yet been conquered can see the inner complex structure. Second, the "weakness" that is difficult to give up Leni represents the human frailty, the most hidden and vital part of the human being.Since she appeared in the form of pure desire, stripped of all pretense and pretense, K. was more seduced than ever by her presence.Then the uncle drove her away forcibly, in order to make K. miss her even more. K followed the guidance of desire to find her; she sat on K's lap and had a discussion with K about desire and love; this discussion raised K to an otherworldly state.Lenny said frankly that she represented love and that K should unite with her.The vulgar K. was not used to such sincere, naked confessions, and he responded with a evasive remark, at which point Leni gained the upper hand.Leni further expressed her desire, but K still didn't dare to answer directly, but he couldn't control himself anymore, so he hugged her and pulled her closer to him. Although K held her, he was still not used to this strange feeling, because it was something he had never experienced before, so he always seemed alienated.Leni then discusses worldly love with K.In Leni's view, K's love for Elsa cannot be considered love, because K will not sacrifice himself for her; moreover, Elsa's clothes in the photo are too tight, tightly binding desire to give visual Taking stimulation, this way is too contrived, she doesn't appreciate it.The most critical point is that Elsa has no physical defects, that is, her "weakness" (desire) is completely covered by external things.At this point in the discussion, Leni showed K the "taping" between her fingers, exuding a strange and stimulating smell all over her body, which made K feel as if she was in a fairyland, and immediately fell into the river of desire with her.

Leni is aggressive and naked; while K, as a member of the secular world, who is used to pretending, is curious about everything about her, and is immediately swayed by this queen-like girl.Echoing Leni is the desire in Ren's body, and her task is to call out this desire, so that Ren Zheng "likes" her without any scruples.So K's messing around with her was a real crime, completely different from his relationship with Elsa. K's relationship with Elsa is neither bound by obligation nor punished; it is not love, nor is it a crime, it is just a game that everyone who belongs to the world plays.The relationship with Leni is fatal. K has kissed the "eagle" on her hand, and it belongs to her entirely. That is to say, he must obey his desire wholeheartedly and fall into the abyss of crime; He must bear the consequences of messing up the case, because Leni will not save him. This is a very terrible love, but how can K resist the temptation of the strange "trample" in the woman's hand? After being taken to the lawyer's house by his uncle willingly, isn't this woman the only bright spot in his dark mood, the hope in his despair? It's not the boring theory on the discussion table, but the sexy Lenny brings His stormy passion made him fight against the law again. Leni proved to him that the "weakness" in people is the root of everything. If you abandon it, you will no longer be a person, and your theory will disappear; This "weakness" is also the source of evil, and because of it, people can constantly encounter the Dharma.

3. K's emotional struggle in this chapter It is another good show in which desire overcomes the shackles of reason.When K temporarily forgot about the case in his busy schedule, his uncle, the devil from the past, emerged from the depths of his memory to remind him. K is very tired of him, because he disrupts his life order; but K has to obey his orders, because he is K's self.At the beginning, his uncle kept talking about the case, and K kept trying to resolve the case; after a stalemate for a while, K slowly woke up from his daily affairs, overcame the inertia of judgment, and once again cheered up to go deep into his case.He was still reluctant, but the nerves in his whole body had to be tensed, and he was ready to face another battle.Under the pressure of the atmosphere, he narrated the whole process of the case again.This is a review before the battle, and he is about to face the test.As soon as he enters the lawyer's house, K enters the role, and his lethargy is swept away. The case is no longer a memory that can be ignored, but a reality that must be faced.He found the crux of the problem by intuition (although emphasized by his uncle), and devoted himself energetically to the self-dissection operation.In this "absurdity", no matter how strong his desire is, how real his sense of guilt will be, and how deep his fear will be.When he was seduced by Leni, he began to say some commonplaces that did not convey his meaning, and then he followed his desire.Compatible with his increasingly aggressive desires, this woman is also more exposed and stronger than Miss Bi and the servant woman, and belongs to the type that can do everything.At this moment K is no longer a bank assistant, he has become a shameless man who cheated before the law; and he is still a bank assistant, a liar who has no reason to live any longer. K. had completed the task assigned to him by his uncle, and his uncle summed up his achievements with a curse, in order not to allow him to live in peace after returning home, because his fate can only be endless wars.

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