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highsaffron
Since: Apr, 2015

I'm 90% sure this is a Kafka story but for the life of me I can't find it. A man awakes inside an iron maiden and can see other iron maidens in front and to the side of him. Each one has a crime displayed on it, and people are walking past the iron maidens and sneering, jeering, etc. The man looks around but cannot see his own crime. When the crowd gets to him, they give the most exuberant display of distaste with his crime and react almost violently. The crime is never revealed to the character or the reader.