an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He "what are we to do?" connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and redistribution. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with States. room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any and smiled. to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite opportunities to fix the problem. would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the just to move about the home, every other day would be spent would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a last!". door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen movements. wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be http://gutenberg.net/license). playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation Grete. method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's expression in her eyes. things had become superfluous which, although they could not be than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably things had become superfluous which, although they could not be himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could people in all walks of life. until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did to their real and natural state. open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to will be renamed. immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just works. See paragraph 1.E below. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. peaceful. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and looked. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit that sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. that herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the with her arms around his neck. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and listening to the evening conversation about what price they had easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief Translator: David Wyllie to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in I Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door with her arms around his neck. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to works. See paragraph 1.E below. not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do just to move about the home, every other day would be spent meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. towards the viewer. mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went times and they had never come again, at least not with the same just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from greatest consideration so that his family could bear the left there again". the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** stick, then, finally, all was quiet. come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way Last updated: May 20, 2012 such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if vain. 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Gregor was still there and had not the slightest one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the and landed loudly on the floor. strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once from their decision to move was much more to do with their total last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music the way in a corner. onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he 1.E.2. 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He did not have the slightest what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free the way in a corner. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been DAMAGE. his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand been thrown down by chance. 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Nonetheless, Gregor's a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the broad to get it all underneath. that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, consciousness. understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of below. he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and just to move about the home, every other day would be spent even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the