'The leopards break into the temple and lick clean the sacrificial bowls; this happens again and again; eventually it can be foreseen and becomes part of the ritual.' Aphorism No. 20. This edition includes all of the aphorisms Kafka wrote in Zürau in 1917/18 all of the aphorisms recorded in his diary in January and February 1920 and four longer fragments written about the same time as the diary aphorisms.