![]() ![]() Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. ![]() "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. ![]() ![]() He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Translated by David Wyllie One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Metamorphosis Metamorphosis 2 Author: Franz Kafka Release Date: February, 2004 Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, METAMORPHOSIS *** Copyright (C) 2002 by David Wyllie. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. Metamorphosis 1 Metamorphosis Information about Project Gutenberg Information prepared by the Project Gutenberg legal advisor Metamorphosis The Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka Translated by David Wyllie. ![]()
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