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| Edvard Munch The Yellow Log 1912 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Vampire 1895 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Death in the Sickroom 1893 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
"Do you realize your trial is going badly?" asked the priest.
"It seems that way to me too," said K. "I've tried as hard as I can, but without any success so far. Of course I haven't completed my petition yet."
"How do you imagine it will end," asked the priest.
"At first I thought it would surely end well," said K., "now sometimes I even have doubts myself. I don't know how it will end. Do you?"
"No," said the priest, "but I fear it will end badly. They think you're guilty. Your trial may never move beyond the lower courts. At least for the moment, your guilt is assumed proved."
"But I'm not guilty," said K. "It's a mistake. How can any person in general be guilty? We're all human, after all, each and every one of us."
"That's right," said the priest, "but that's how guilty people always talk."
"Are you prejudiced against me too?" asked K.
"I'm not prejudiced against you," said the priest.
"Thank you," said K. "But everyone else involved with the proceedings is prejudiced against me. And they instill it in those who aren't involved. My position is becoming increasingly difficult."
"You misunderstand the facts of the matter," said the priest. "The judgment isn't simply delivered at some point; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgment."
"So that's how it is," said K. and bowed his head.
– from The Trial by Franz Kafka, originally published in 1925, translated by Breon Mitchell and published in English by Schocken Books in 1998
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| Edvard Munch Jealousy 1906 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Red and White 1899-1900 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Madonna 1894 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Separation 1896 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch The Scream 1910 tempera on cardboard Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Train Smoke 1900 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Angst 1894 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch The Voice - Summer Night 1896 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Self-portrait with Bottle of Wine 1906 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Self-portrait in Hell 1904 oil on canvas Munch Museum, Oslo |
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| Edvard Munch Self-portrait “à la Marat” 1908-09 photographic print Munch Museum, Oslo |