Franz Kafka. Castle (№ 430586)

Wasn't he summoned for the night interrogation, and doesn't he know why these night calls were instituted? The purpose of the night calls - and then K. heard a new explanation of their meaning - was to listen as quickly as possible to the petitioners, whose appearance by day gentlemen officials are unbearable, to listen to them at night under artificial light, using the opportunity after the questioning to forget all this muck in a dream.