A character in this story carries a leather folder containing pages covered in dense unreadable script that only he can touch. That character in this story complains of having lost access to a cash box after being forced to use a chain to replace a broken piece of leather. During a visit to a tea house in this story, a table is pushed aside to reveal a gravestone whose inscription prophesies the reconquest of the colony by the old (*) Commandant. The special cotton wool used to make a vibrating bed and a harrow-like arrangement of needles are described by the Officer in this story, who replace
A character in this story carries a leather folder containing pages covered in dense unreadable script that only he can touch. That character in this story complains of having lost access to a cash box after being forced to use a chain to replace a broken piece of leather. During a visit to a tea house in this story, a table is pushed aside to reveal a gravestone whose inscription prophesies the reconquest of the colony by the old (*) Commandant. The special cotton wool used to make a vibrating bed and a harrow-like arrangement of needles are described by the Officer in this story, who replaces the Condemned and dies as that machine creates the phrase "Be Just". For 10 points, identify this story about a machine that carves sentences into condemned criminals, a work of Franz Kafka.
A character in this story carries a leather folder containing pages covered in dense unreadable script that only he can touch.