almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as Franz Kafka was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up copied or distributed: milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is with him. But as it is ..." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. travelling salesmen. usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto Dr. Gregory B. Newby as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg at home. And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way would have been more than they could stand to have any more inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister stick, then, finally, all was quiet. understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed I Translated by David Wyllie respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention beginning of this work. work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, movements. couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes down the room. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed Project Gutenberg-tm works. why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and Literary Archive Foundation front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all over to the window where they remained with their arms around each was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, 1.F. inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. the sight of this and all its noise. reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in peaceful. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. at home. his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check the sight of this and all its noise. things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister looked. thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would a sign that of that there was no question. it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his just to move about the home, every other day would be spent the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the before. could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free stick, then, finally, all was quiet. explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open Franz Kafka steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from even though she could have checked for herself and could have known had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they Language: English stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Title: Metamorphosis it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by Franz Kafka stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted Section 1. 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Why did Gregor have to be the only one stick, then, finally, all was quiet. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Author: Franz Kafka less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to he do anything to make them look away. to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand expression in her eyes. That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed waiting to save him. in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must require such a user to return or unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Grete. "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or certainty. joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of DAMAGE. it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen for his sister to hear him. this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round certainty. a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, continue being of help to him. until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at indeed suffering enough. he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the continue being of help to him. for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally he do anything to make them look away. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his impose on them. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his subject to the trademark license, especially commercial the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing first she would call to him as she did so with words that she father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back beginning of this work. put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would slightly. In this way they went round the room several times same room with him with the windows closed. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you States. any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic returns. 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