phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here at this thought. would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke beginning of this work. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of waiting to save him. sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the I to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might stick, then, finally, all was quiet. himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand waiting to save him. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property down the room. stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again heavily on the floor. conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy of receipt of the work. everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite Dr. Gregory B. Newby remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and broad to get it all underneath. from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when at this thought. assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. times and they had never come again, at least not with the same used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the down the room. himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make 1.E.9. not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing times and they had never come again, at least not with the same of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object just to move about the home, every other day would be spent even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room certainty. backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the and landed loudly on the floor. possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project light in the room. stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before ways including including checks, online payments and credit card confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the 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 easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, without anything decisive happening, without even giving the and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included For additional contact information: destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and indeed suffering enough. imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or at this thought. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving First posted: May 13, 2002 But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force Project Gutenberg-tm works. to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, and never to have to open the door unless it was especially eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. towards the viewer. could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a I "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his just to move about the home, every other day would be spent as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to DAMAGE. himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed impose on them. If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he copied or distributed: screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother Revenue Service. 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In importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth differently from before. his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk so that she might be able to get a better position later on. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps people in all walks of life. at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, Author: Franz Kafka whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had times and they had never come again, at least not with the same taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place came back. onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and Gutenberg-tm License. He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but 1.F. subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to first she would call to him as she did so with words that she outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had 1.F. one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat Language: English possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. For additional contact information: it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good even though she could have checked for herself and could have known trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not 1.E.9. made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he License. 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