the court power is lost when the door keeper tells him that this entrance was, from the very start, meant only for him. In other words, he tells the man from the country that the thing that fascinated him was, in a way, gazing back at him all along, addressing him. That is, the man’s desire was from the very start ‘part of the game.’ The whole spectacle of the Door of the Law and the secret beyond it was staged only to capture his desire.

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