NPPF Comm2: Often -- some notes

Don Corathers gumbo at fuse.net
Sun Aug 31 19:27:31 CDT 2003


> pg 97
> "At times I thought that only by self-destruction could I hope to cheat
the
> relentlessly advancing assassins who were in me, in my eardrums, in my
> pulse, in my skull, rather than on that constant highway looping up over
me
> and around my heart"
>
> I could be wrong but I think this is K's first allusion to suicide.

I believe you are correct. Very clumsy of me not to have taken note of it.

Don





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