"A Little Fable" by Franz Kafka

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

     "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

"Not all paradoxes have to be paralyzing."

David Foster Wallace - The Nature of Fun 
from Fiction Writer Magazine, September 1998.