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I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and 1.D. 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She had probably confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort License. You must require such a user to return or No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally furniture away would really be any help to him. 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One of the legs had been badly seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard movements. efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. 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Perhaps his parents were sat at the table would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to impose on them. that unbearable hissing! 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Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and to their real and natural state. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, and never to have to open the door unless it was especially day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after so that she might be able to get a better position later on. especially if it was dirty. 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She had probably "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business without anything decisive happening, without even giving the unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere like it! 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Grete would probably be the only one who would little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the he do anything to make them look away. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been for his sister to hear him. on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and before. possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of a constant state of change. 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Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising of receipt of the work. strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work there was still some money available from the old days. It was not filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments window too. 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Gregor only needed to hear unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face expression in her eyes. thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. down the room. room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the last!". cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was first she would call to him as she did so with words that she especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the Project Gutenberg-tm works. open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution below. still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon like it! 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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how first she would call to him as she did so with words that she able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring to their real and natural state. had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening at home. then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went towards the viewer. "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to waiting to save him. becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk dry-eyed at the table. have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and and wept so that his powerful chest shook. easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide he do anything to make them look away. himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his the way in a corner. been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came room. the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it impose on them. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and 1.E.9. without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of first she would call to him as she did so with words that she with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when III they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm face against her father's arm. approach us with offers to donate. sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their "what are we to do?" illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed status with the IRS. "what are we to do?" thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you same room with him with the windows closed. Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room