Is this because he's become a "higher being" by wanting to create life?

Without astonishment? Has this happened to him before? Did he know that the circular ruins and sun will heal him?

This brings new meaning to the title. The situation seems very circular. Every man dreams of a new man.

(in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual.

meaning of or relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.

Very similar to the description of the man at the beginning

Quiet, keeps to himself.

These are the 4 repertoires. They oppose and distort each other because they emphasize one aspect the subject.

How does the click break through the fake Pose? Is it because afterwards the subject can return to the real him?

The eye is more subjective than the finger. The finger just captures a moment as it is, but eye transports information to the brain where judgment is made.

It is strange because the sound of the click is almost like the sound of the guillotine coming down to chop somebody's head off.

In a photo, in which the photo provides very little of the situation's context, it is easy to create a new, "better" self.

Because photos are such a permanent form of art and so easily distributed, we want to look like our best authentic self. Regardless, we often want to show things that are admired by other that we, ourselves, might not possess. It creates a culture that is too focused on public images, and how we come across to other people.

A radical socialist government that took control of France from March 18 to May 28, 1871. The Third Republic of France, led by Thiers, killed a majority of the Communards in what is known as "The Bloody Week."

This reminds me of people who can't find their passions in life. They feel no vitality and slowly wither away.

The hunger artist was just a fad that faded. It seems like an analogy for all the famous people who would do anything to keep public attention on them. Once what they do doesn't attract the public, they seem to die.

Why is the striking of the clock "all-important?" Is there a reason that it's the only piece of furniture in the cage? Is that why it's "all-important?" Because it's the only material good deemed significant enough to be part of the hunger artist's work?

What changed?

This reminds me of the nature documentaries when the film crew films a dying elephant without intervening. But this is a different situation in which nonintervention is not the same as letting nature take its course in the case of the elephant. Nonintervention here means allow atrocities to occur. This leads to the question, is documenting atrocities to let the public know the true horrors worth letting other humans die?

And many modern pictures posted on social media

The right look is often what the photographer wants to portray, just like what the artist or writer wants to show through their work.

However photoshop can easily change the evidence of the image

Yet an artist photoshopped images of her traveling when in reality she was just sitting at home.

refers to Faust from a German legend, a scholar who makes a pact with the Devil and exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

But photographs capture one instance in the world. The world changes so fast that you could be collecting an outdated version of the world.

Are the cats more willing to be curious and die because they have nine lives unlike the dogs who only have one life to live? Maybe the cats have nine-lives because they are willing to explore.

I like the idea that to change, one has to be curious. Without a drive to explore and discover new things, we would be in stagnant waters, never improving or progressing - never changing.

It's interesting how the author pits cats against dogs. It's like grouping the world into two kinds of people like Ken Robinson said.

It's a warning that while being curious can uncover some of the greatest things in the world, it is very possible to discover some of the worst things possible like the creation of an atomic bomb.

The speaker is saying that by being curious, you are alive thus capable of dying. But when you are unwilling to explore the unknown, you are already dead.

All of the previous lines were enjambments but at the end of the stanza, the sentence is finished.

Seems like the questions are getting deeper and darker. Seems to be asking questions beyond the just the man and banana.

You as in the reader or someone close to wideman?

Why are there no question marks at the end of these questions?