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...cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov is up to; he is writing a fantasy-satire whose imagery is surrealist, whose logic is the logic of the dream...
High Maintenance. In Chicago, Conrad Hernbrott's estranged wife let the air out of his automobile tires, took the tubes out of his TV set, locked him out of his room and changed the lock, posted a sign in the corridor of his rooming house reminding him that he hadn't made his support payment...
...Between corridor and operating suite is an "exchange area." Everybody who passes this must first put on conductive booties over his shoes. Inside, he dons sterile cap and gown and scrubs (with antiseptic) for ten minutes. Patients, even on stretchers, get fresh sterile coverings and masks at the door...
...recover, and even to volunteer remembered bits, e.g., a memory picture of a woman called Ruth, and a child called Micky he believed was theirs. Noting signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like to walk near the wall," observed Mr. Justice Davies. "Dr. Johnson did it all his life," volunteered Counsel Lawton amid laughter, "going along touching doorposts down Fleet Street...
...Harvard creed seems to be a form of temperate agnosticism--belief in a process of questioning with truth ever at the end of the corridor, yet in this case a process which does not question its own value, even though for the individual the corridor has no end but death...