City of Leopards

They built the city of leopards. A thousand tongues and a thousand ears. Each leopard found a place on the plans and lay beside other leopards to form a wall or staircase.

No act of building was every so easy. But now after a thousand years, the people no longer hear breathing. They consider the leopards only as stones.

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Image: modified image of Kafka as a toddler.
Text: another variation of a Kafka parable from my project with Hugh Thomas.