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Chapter 71 lawyer

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Whether or not I have a lawyer is really uncertain, and I don't have any details on that.All the faces showed refusal, and most of the people I met on the way and repeatedly in the corridors looked like fat elderly women wearing large dark blue and white aprons that covered the whole body, stroking Holding his belly, he turned around awkwardly.I don't even know if the building we're in is a courthouse.Some say yes, many say no.Leaving aside all the details, what made me realize this was a courthouse was a rumbling sound, a rumbling sound that could be heard from a distance at any time, could not tell which direction it was coming from, it filled all the space, so it could It was supposed to come from all directions, or--it seemed more appropriate to say--that the rumble was coming from where people occasionally stood, but this must be an illusion, for it came from a distance.These narrow corridors run forward with a gentle curve, with simple vaults above and tall, plain doors beside them. They seem to be made for the deep silence, the entrance of a museum or a library. The hallway is just that.But if this is not a court, why am I looking for a lawyer here?I looked everywhere for a lawyer, and I couldn't do without him everywhere, but the courts shouldn't need lawyers more than anywhere else, because courts make decisions according to the law, and people should think so.There will be no life for thinking that things are done here unjustly or hastily, and we must trust the courts, and trust that they make the law all the more majestic, because that is its only business, and, as far as the law itself is concerned, to prosecute, to try, to adjudicate That's all, and it's a crime for a man to step in alone.But the factual basis of a judgment is different. It is based on investigations of all kinds, with relatives and strangers, friends and enemies, in family and in public, in town and country, in a word, on Surveys everywhere.In this case, it is imperative to have lawyers. There must be many lawyers, the best lawyers, one next to the other, a wall of living people, because lawyers are by their very nature unshakable.But the prosecutors are cunning foxes, clever weasels, invisible little mice who can slip through the tiniest crack, who can swish through a lawyer's crotch.Be careful!That's why I'm here now, and I'm looking for lawyers.But I haven't found any yet, only these older women come and go, always them.If I wasn't looking, I'm afraid I would have dozed off.I was looking in the wrong place, and unfortunately I couldn't ignore the impression.I should go to a place where all sorts of people meet, from different places, from all walks of life, from all walks of life, from all ages.I should have the opportunity to carefully select from the large number of people who are useful, who are friendly, who are interested in me.Probably the Grand Bazaar is the most suitable.And yet I'm wandering around these corridors, and here I see only these elderly women, few in number, and always the same people, even this few—despite their movements Slow - I can't stop them, they leave me, like pieces of rain clouds are floating, all busy with inexplicable things.Why on earth did I run so recklessly into a house that I didn't even read the writing above the door, and immediately came to this corridor.I am so obstinately staying here that I can hardly remember whether I ever stopped in front of this house, or came up these steps.But I can't go back, I can't bear to waste my time like this, I can't bear to admit that I went the wrong way.what to do?Running down steps in this short, hasty life with an intolerable rumble?This is impossible.The time that is yours is so short that if you lose one second you have lost your whole life, because it cannot be longer, it is always only as long as the time you have lost.Once you start on a path, keep going, no matter what the circumstances, you can only succeed, you are not taking risks, maybe eventually you will fall, but if you turn around and run down the steps after taking a few steps, then you It's not a maybe, it's a sure thing to fall in the beginning.If you can't find anything in the corridor, then you open those doors, if you can't find anything in these doors, there is a new floor, if you can't find anything on it, don't worry, you Then jump up the new stairs.As long as you keep going up, there will be no end to the stairs, and they will also grow up under your feet.

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