The Dreams

Dream 143

Hearing an unfamiliar voice, I hurried over to the stairwell to find a strange man who aroused my suspicion.

I called to the doorman to take a look at the stranger. He calmly informed me that this person was a civil servant carrying out his official duty.

That was, he explained, to take individuals out of overcrowded buildings and to transfer them to places which have more room. I objected — for this, I said, was to tear people away from their own families, only to put them somewhere they would not be welcome.

But the doorman insisted that such was the law, and one could only obey and comply.