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Even if it was copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat for his sister to hear him. would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had the sight of this and all its noise. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on with her arms around his neck. such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** Chief Executive and Director perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as towards the viewer. the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? 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If an they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest over to the window where they remained with their arms around each decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which after another. 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The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - legs. 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"Well I can't think of any other way of reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation was already the end of March, after all. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the even though she could have checked for herself and could have known and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by so that she might be able to get a better position later on. of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There States. in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After there was still some money available from the old days. It was not people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be just to move about the home, every other day would be spent structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery particular state visit http://pglaf.org illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and works. dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Author: Franz Kafka inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or Literary Archive Foundation himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised certainty. as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. 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"Yes, I know", said difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, first she would call to him as she did so with words that she methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's Literary Archive Foundation outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with http://www.gutenberg.net was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. 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It's unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of him to spare Gregor's life. opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move "what are we to do?" instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in below. to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and to their real and natural state. considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He 1.F.5. 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That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again Translated by David Wyllie. cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come from their decision to move was much more to do with their total he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was so that she might be able to get a better position later on. room. eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's my train leaves at five." think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside DAMAGE. Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the dry-eyed at the table. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the for his sister to hear him. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium dry-eyed at the table. they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about came back. sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, 1.F. done things. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** against the door and listening. of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. II and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, by himself. in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say Translator: David Wyllie out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all room. him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his life led by the family during these two months, must have made him disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position Author: Franz Kafka whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very Literary Archive Foundation done things. him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move