Chapter 2
THE TRAMWAY DREAM
Daniel Kočí sold meat in the butcher shop on Josefská St. He was an unskilled labourer in the trade, because he didn’t like the job at all, and determined to devote no more time to it than was absolutely necessary. Actually, he would much rather have spent his time behind a counter selling buttons, pins, and thread, or tiles, flooring materials, and roofing shingles, if he had to be a seller of anything. But he’d come across nothing better, and there were no open slots anywhere save in the butcher shop. Basically, he was unhappy in this line of work; it was hard for him to bear the sight of all of those innards torn and chopped into portions, the bodies of animals turned inside out, and the hooks from which hung the remains of those pleasant and basically frie
