Kennedy, Sinead
(2021)
Bodies under the Law: Feminist Artistic Practice and the Struggle to #Repealthe8th.
Éire-Ireland, 56 (3-4).
pp. 241-263.
ISSN 1550-5162
Abstract
Before the Law stands a door-keeper on guard. To this door-keeper
there comes a man from the country who begs for admittance to the
Law. But the door-keeper says that he cannot admit the man at the
moment. The man, on reflection, asks if he will be allowed, then, to
enter later. “It is possible,” answers the door-keeper, “but not at this
moment.” Since the door leading into the Law stands open as usual
and the door-keeper steps to one side, the man bends down to peer
through the entrance. When the door-keepers sees that, he laughs and
says: “If you are so strongly tempted, try to get in without my permission.
But note I am powerful. And I am only the lowest doorkeeper.
From hall to hall, keepers stand at every door, one more powerful
than the other.”
franz kafka, “before the law”
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