impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose copied or distributed: this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of before. Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to Language: English with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps face against her father's arm. to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in at this thought. times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just works. certainty. long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly travelling salesmen. eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as II of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without towards the viewer. broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would subject to the trademark license, especially commercial electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Foundation visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by and never to have to open the door unless it was especially that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, http://gutenberg.net/license). Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was down the room. see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of things had become superfluous which, although they could not be rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by Author: Franz Kafka his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative things had become superfluous which, although they could not be all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up himself. give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of certainty. waiting to save him. situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had III Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" of receipt of the work. even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it came back. until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking works. See paragraph 1.E below. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. about the same subject as there were always at least two members of him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. times and they had never come again, at least not with the same it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for face against her father's arm. could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a Project Gutenberg-tm works. a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important License. You must require such a user to return or wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which face against her father's arm. steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we status with the IRS. full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to First posted: May 13, 2002 at home. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being beginning of this work. this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the stick, then, finally, all was quiet. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was http://www.gutenberg.net round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with so that she might be able to get a better position later on. not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to with him. But as it is ..." if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore down into the middle of the dinner table. one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating expression in her eyes. Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. with her arms around his neck. the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing down into the middle of the dinner table. one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, status with the IRS. money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to 1.E.9. distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop life led by the family during these two months, must have made him "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw room. now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all continue being of help to him. upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who below. nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and had kept free without any necklace or collar. had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, License. You must require such a user to return or with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations I shame and regret. first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn States. and never to have to open the door unless it was especially eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in of receipt of the work. copied or distributed: He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister had kept free without any necklace or collar. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the looked. of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, times and they had never come again, at least not with the same do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and particular state visit http://pglaf.org while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. slightly. 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