A David Foster Wallace essay examines a very short story by this author in which a mouse laments (10[1])how “the whole (15[2])world is growing smaller every day,” (15[1])only to be eaten by a cat. (15[1])The narrator explains how people confuse (15[1])the current emperor with dead ones in a story by this author that justifies the piecemeal construction method for building the Great Wall of China. (15[2]10[1])The narrator (15[1])of a story by this author recalls struggling to learn to (*) drink alcohol during a talk on his past life as an ape. A panther (10[1])replaces (10[1])a performer (10[1])who admits (10[1])on his deathbed (10[1])that he could never find food that he liked (10[2])in (10[1])a story by this (10[1])writer whose title references the concept of the “starving artist.” For 10 points, (10[1])name this Czech author who imagined Gregor’s transformation (10[3])into (10[1])a giant (10[1])bug in The Metamorphosis. ■END■