カフカ「審判」

"No one else could enter here, since this door was destined for you alone. Now I will go and shut it."(Franz Kafka,Der Prozeß,1925)

"If it is true the door's very openness constituted, as we saw, the invisible power and specific "force" of the Law, then we can imagine that all the behavior of the man from the country is nothing other than a complicated and patient strategy to have the door closed in order to interrupt the Law's being in force. And in the end, the man succeeds in his endeavor, since he succeeds in having the door of the Law closed forever (it was, after all, open "only for him"), even ifhe may have risked his life in the process (the story does not say that he is actually dead but only that he is "close to the end").(Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, 1995)

　扉が「開かれている」ことそのものが法の不可視の権力および特別の「力」を構成するのであれば、外部者はその発効を阻止するために逆にその扉を閉じられたままにしておくことだ。そうすることによってのみその外部者は扉の内側に入ることができる。今の私にはとてもよく分かる命題だ。