"K. Puzzled by His Children The children are crying. There are several children, one about four, a boy, then another boy, slightly older, and a little girl, very beautiful, wearing blue jeans, crying. There are various objects on the grass, an electric train, a picture book, a red ball, a plastic basket, a plastic shovel. K. frowns at the children whose distress issues from no source immediately available to the eye, which seems uncaused, vacant, a general anguish. K. turns to the mother of these children who is standing nearby wearing hip-huggers which appear to be made of linked marshmallows studded with diamonds but then I am a notoriously poor observer. “Play with them”, he says. The mother of ten quietly suggests that K. himself “play with them”. K. picks up the picture book and begins to read to the children. But the book has a German text. It has been left behind, perhaps, by some foreign visitor. Nevertheless K. perseveres. “A ist der Affe, er isst mit der Pfote.” (“A is the Ape, he eats with his Paw.”) The crying of the children continues."
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