“My case,” the businessman continued, “didn't move on at all, there were some hearings that took place and I went to every one of them, collected materials, handed all my business books to the court - which I later found was entirely unnecessary - I ran back and forth to the lawyer, and he submitted various documents to the court too �” “Various documents?” asked K.

“Yes, that's right,” said the businessman. “That's very important for me,” said K., “in my case he's still working on the first set of documents. He still hasn't done anything. I see now that he's been neglecting me quite disgracefully.” “There can be lots of good reasons why the first documents still aren't ready,” said the businessman, “and anyway, it turned out later