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Workers Come Cheap. Parts of Akutagawa's book might have come from Dean Swift. Accompanied by Gael, "a capitalist of capitalists," No. 23 visited some kappa factories. His guide told him that each month the kappa invent seven or eight hundred new machines which throw 40 or 50,000 kappa out of work. When No. 23 wondered about the absence of labor trouble, his kappa friends explained nonchalantly: "They are all eaten up. We kill all those workers and eat their flesh. This month 64,769 workers have been dismissed and the price of meat has dropped...
...making a fuss," said Pep (the kappa judge), who sat frowning in front of a wild peach in a pot, "we've got the workers' Butchery...
...kappa thought No. 23's horror at eating kappa meat pure sentimentality, since everyone knew that in Japan girls from poor families were regularly sold to brothels...
...Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...
Death Came Early. One day, No. 23 left the kappa and returned to Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...