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...minor nightmares, too, Kafka invented a variety of dramatic images. Sometimes (Investigations of a Dog), the victim of murder by mortality is a dog. Sometimes (Metamorphosis), he is a man who has been bestialized into a gigantic beetle. Sometimes (The Burrow), he is a little, nameless, furred animal, burrowing or scuttling in terror under the earth...
...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...
...said: "All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling. All of us want to stand erect, with our faces to the sun, instead of being forced to burrow into the earth, like rats...
There were two levels of the wartime underground in Europe: anonymous patriots who could sometimes fight back a little, and-farther down-wanted men who had to burrow and keep hidden. Gisele van der Gracht's Amsterdam apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...