" Meanwhile, the majority of the audience- this is plain to see- has retreated into itself. Here in these brief gaps between their troubles our people dream; it is as if the limbs of each were loosened, as if every last uneasy individual were for once allowed to stretch out and relax freely in the great warm bed of the people. "

― Franz Kafka , Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk (The Metamorphasis, A Hunger Artist, A Penal Colony, and Other Stories)