Mannequin on the Moon by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra for October 16, 2023

Have a cup of Kafka and you’ll be fine.

He gratefully expired in a matter of moments, having too much body mass to oxygenate with his available surface area.

Metamorphosis no doubt.

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One of Kafka’s best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. “monstrous vermin”) and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. It was published in 1915

I heard his new body bugged him.

Makes me want to sing “La Cucaracha”.

bedbugs?

Funny! Just call in sick and crawl back under the covers.

On top of everything else, his slippers don’t fit anymore!

Kafka’s work was a study in self-loathing.

I was going to suggest this as an instance of samsara, but that would be a circular argument, which is bad karma, man.