From a Guardian story about a Conrad Black remote book signing in London on Wednesday, with sentencing looming a week from Monday:

Black admitted he would have to be "brain dead" not to be contemplating the four walls of a prison cell, although he refused to say whether he would attempt any more money-spinning LongPen signings from prison. As he sits by his Florida rose garden and awaits his fate, he joked he was seeking solace in Franz Kafka's The Trial.

"When I read it at first I thought it was a novel," he said. "Now I realise it's just journalism."