r artist is seen by those around as being as strange as the angel is seen by those around him. The hunger artist is not, however, a threat. He is more of a curiosity. His mystery is not a mystery of the supernatural, as is the case with the winged angel, but rather a mystery of the bizarre. The hunger artist offers the public nothing but a brief moment of strangeness as they pay the price of a ticket and look into his cage.
The angel, on the other hand, because of his wings and his supernatural connections, does offer the public more than a moment of curiosity. At first, however, after the threat has worn off, the couple "found the whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat . . . as if he were . . . a circus animal" (Marquez 526). This
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