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According to an article published by The New York TImes called "A Thief Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In" Gangaram Mahes was a homeless man who used to go well dressed into a fine restaurant and spend 50 dollars then leave without paying trying to get into jail in order to have a place that would ofer three meals a day and a clean bed. He committed the same crime 31 times according to police reports. Louis Fasulo was a supervising lawyer at Legal Aid opinion is that what is really bad is the fact that no one said anything about the faact that Mr. Mahes would go to jail so many times and no one questioned it. Fasulo said: "No one took the time," also Mr. Fasulo thinks jail has became a warehouse for the poor, he said during the winter, "they take batteries out of cars and stand there waiting, so they can be out of the cold,"
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As the very theme of the story is the absurdity of trying to escape death, the clock serves as a reminder that death is inevitable. It symbolizes the passage of time.
