Kay's a Dog, and the Sham Is to Outlive Him

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Kay saw how the men drew near his face, leaning cheek to cheek to observe the verdict, like a dog. He said, it seemed as though the shame was to outlive him. And i can't help but read this as as metaphor for life. Everyone meets that endyes, right? We all are going to meet that end.

David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of an opaque and impenetrable bureaucracy that comes for us all in the end. Plus we interrupt our previously scheduled opening segment because apparently something happened at the Oscars last week.