The pandemic caught up with him on Monday, 14 October 1918. As the fever overcame him, he fell into a delirium, so he did not notice the large crowd gathering in the square outside. Day by day, while he mumbled and muttered and tossed and turned in his sweated-through sheets, the crowds outside grew larger and larger, until a new republic was declared on Monday, 28 October. By the beginning of November, when he overcame the "Spanish flu" and the delirium it had caused, Franz Kafka learned that he had fallen ill in Prague as a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and recovered as a citizen of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 14 October 2025, after Reiner Stach, "Kafka: Die Jahre der Erkenntnis", 2008, 277-288)