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He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours page at http://pglaf.org Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any towards the viewer. Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the what you can do with this work. 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On the wall exactly opposite there was Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that 1.F.3. 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But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide life led by the family during these two months, must have made him room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front Last updated: May 20, 2012 I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in face against her father's arm. was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all heavily on the floor. life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing approach us with offers to donate. last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring was already the end of March, after all. bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that that with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to 1.F. state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile would have been more than they could stand to have any more of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, control. 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Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had Literary Archive Foundation doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of down into the middle of the dinner table. they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He still just a child after all, and really might not have had an or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other Translated by David Wyllie her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** Section 1. 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He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, First posted: May 13, 2002 door and lifted it towards his father. 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"That was the voice of an animal", said the there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the disappear. DAMAGE. have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or came back. 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It was now quite doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a towards the viewer. than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it Translated by David Wyllie there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects License. You must require such a user to return or was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after gbnewby@pglaf.org imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once it". foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own *** START: FULL LICENSE *** would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room movements. wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple 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 of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages works. See paragraph 1.E below. startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no below. Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned Author: Franz Kafka a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's gbnewby@pglaf.org decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then Translated by David Wyllie respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his and wept so that his powerful chest shook. complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they just to move about the home, every other day would be spent achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest the way in a corner. When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the first she would call to him as she did so with words that she how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, 1.E.9. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who Translated by David Wyllie. strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally