Referring to a designer mentioned in this story, one of the characters asks, "Was he soldier, judge, engineer, chemist, and draftsman?"
Referring to a designer mentioned in this story, one of the characters asks, "Was he soldier, judge, engineer, chemist, and draftsman?" Another character in this work boasts at having so far fended off the new Commandant, and later laments the absence of a new felt. In the end, it is discovered that the followers of the Old Commandant were not allowed to have a name, and the Traveler tells one of those followers that he does not approve of the procedure and will testify against it. At the end of this story, the Officer sets the Harrow to read "Be just!" and submits himself to the machine, only to have it kill him and destroy itself. For ten points, identify this Franz Kafka short story about a device in the titular location which inscribes prisoners' sentences on their body.
Referring to a designer mentioned in this story, one of the characters asks, "Was he soldier, judge, engineer, chemist, and draftsman?"
{In The Penal Colony} or {In der Strafkolonie}