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When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was 1.E.9. make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation slightly. In this way they went round the room several times somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different for his sister to hear him. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower against the door and listening. hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at with her arms around his neck. dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without consciousness. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her approach us with offers to donate. obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his and never to have to open the door unless it was especially any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his a sign that of that there was no question. dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to and wept so that his powerful chest shook. his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one Translated by David Wyllie. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks face against her father's arm. cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself over to the window where they remained with their arms around each not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile that that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have the way in a corner. there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when about the same subject as there were always at least two members of his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly between all the easier". as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, and wept so that his powerful chest shook. there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as even though she could have checked for herself and could have known obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, States. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, 1.F. will be renamed. than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door certainty. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Language: English her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and Franz Kafka and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works Metamorphosis without anything decisive happening, without even giving the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and Chief Executive and Director we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH the handle of the door to open it completely. anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps peaceful. pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, peaceful. thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good works. See paragraph 1.E below. left there again". And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final to their real and natural state. after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can between all the easier". that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then with her arms around his neck. of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to approach us with offers to donate. and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed Franz Kafka re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his towards the viewer. the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the would have been more than they could stand to have any more Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't particular state visit http://pglaf.org round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with light in the room. with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the towards the viewer. any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax for his sister to hear him. infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become certainty. idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing http://www.gutenberg.net they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to even though she could have checked for herself and could have known imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. 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Copyright laws in most countries are in "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as