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Old 11-27-2009, 02:47 PM   #11
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I don't think it's about anything more specific than 'life' either - perhaps certain states of life. It's interesting that he's first arrested on his birthday (if not his 30th, it's thereabout) and that he's allowed to go to work again.
But could it be a birth day in a different sense? The start of the novel is like K has just been born, he's hungry and disconcerted and wants to know why he isn't being fed. He comes across as petulant and the 'policemen' treat him like a child, telling him what to do and refusing to answer his questions; they are also 'significantly bigger' than K and one of them even says to him "The way you’re carrying on, it’s worse than a child."
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