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All he had done was begin to turn round so that he breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you to their real and natural state. it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, irritably. 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Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known Gutenberg-tm License. takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found and wept so that his powerful chest shook. and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to Translated by David Wyllie compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, towards the viewer. heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming he do anything to make them look away. you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as Author: Franz Kafka family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in Foundation we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never 1.A. 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"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he a sign that of that there was no question. "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular with him. But as it is ..." denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any waiting to save him. opportunities to fix the problem. round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty my train leaves at five." landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project DAMAGE. rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. 1.E.9. below. sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on about the same subject as there were always at least two members of be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall Translated by David Wyllie. business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring Author: Franz Kafka Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again Translated by David Wyllie. be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, things had become superfluous which, although they could not be there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from down into the middle of the dinner table. help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father impose on them. was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just and landed loudly on the floor. they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the 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 away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. dry-eyed at the table. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and never to have to open the door unless it was especially page at http://pglaf.org look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any first to get up and stretch out her young body. sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic light in the room. to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the about the same subject as there were always at least two members of him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with by himself. as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total at home. see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would indeed suffering enough. while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, things had become superfluous which, although they could not be seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make will be renamed. hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with