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In Kafka’s Parable, the gatekeeper of the Law offers the man from the country a stool to sit down and wait in front of the gate. For days and years, he sits there, we are told, and he keeps bothering the gatekeeper with his repeated requests to be let in.
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Eule, T.G., Borrelli, L.M., Lindberg, A., Wyss, A. (2019). Time as Waste and Tactic. In: Migrants Before the Law. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98749-1_5
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