![]() The discrepancy, however, runs right through the book. ![]() That was bound to lead to bewilderment! The solitary indulgence of idly gazing at the busy life of New York was permissible in anyone travelling for pleasure, perhaps even advisable within limits but for one who intended to remain in the States it was sheer ruination, a term by no means too emphatic, although it might be exaggerated. Oklahoma,' where Kafka abandons realism entirely to impose a happy ending, in the shape of an elaborate philosophical fantasy, on a course of events that had seemed to be leading toward the destruc-tion of the hero. He himself had known new-comers, for example, who, instead of following these wise precepts had stood all day on their balconies gaping down at the street like lost sheep. The first days of a European in America might be likened to a re-birth, and though Karl was not to worry about it unduly, since one got used to things here more quickly than an infant coming into the world from the other side, yet he must keep in mind that first judgments were always unreliable and that one should not let them prejudice the future judgments which would eventually shape one's life in America. ![]() He should certainly examine and consider everything, but without committing himself. “Cautious in all things, Uncle Jacob advised Karl for the time being to take up nothing seriously. ![]()
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