Willy Shaklespy @WillyShaklespy

The less you've got the more you dream. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka Joined November 2015

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Willy Shaklespy @WillyShaklespy

5 years ago

But they braced themselves, crowded around the cage, and did not ever want to move away.

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5 years ago

seemed to carry freedom around with it too; somewhere in his jaws it seemed to lurk; and the joy of life streamed with such ardent passion from his throat that for the onlookers it was not easy to stand the shock of it.

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5 years ago

The food he liked was brought to him without hesitation by the attendants; he seemed not even to miss his freedom; his noble body, furnished almost to the bursting point with all that it needed,

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5 years ago

Even the most insensitive felt it refreshing to see this wild creature leaping around the cage that had so long been dreary. The panther was all right.

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5 years ago

Into the cage they put a young panther.

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5 years ago

“Well, clear this out now!” said the overseer, and they buried the hunger artist, straw and all.

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5 years ago

These were his last words, but in his dimming eyes remained the firm though no longer proud persuasion that he was still continuing to fast.

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Willy Shaklespy @WillyShaklespy

5 years ago

“because I couldn’t find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else.”

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5 years ago

“Because,” said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and speaking, with his lips pursed, as if for a kiss, right into the overseer’s ear, so that no syllable might be lost,