on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to copied or distributed: hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. light in the room. better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from gbnewby@pglaf.org when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had Chief Executive and Director continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? room. them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his Grete. other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his II curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been I slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk so that she might be able to get a better position later on. understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had first to get up and stretch out her young body. Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was peaceful. The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had at this thought. him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards peaceful. amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There Literary Archive Foundation "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, copied or distributed: bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load "what are we to do?" "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them at home. of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative waiting to save him. Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I times and they had never come again, at least not with the same was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but Chief Executive and Director would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in peaceful. burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations peaceful. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing by himself. fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would at home. So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could my train leaves at five." hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. a sign that of that there was no question. It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his times and they had never come again, at least not with the same "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until even though she could have checked for herself and could have known any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of electronic works two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by light in the room. while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All to their real and natural state. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell with him. But as it is ..." was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from life led by the family during these two months, must have made him folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of works. the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come dry-eyed at the table. his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I still just a child after all, and really might not have had an gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought at home. before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together copied or distributed: all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness face against her father's arm. was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a even though she could have checked for herself and could have known to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag shame and regret. boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door heavily on the floor. III Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation people in all walks of life. http://www.gutenberg.net speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving towards the viewer. thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by 1.F. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as status with the IRS. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of 1.E.9. bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. License. You must require such a user to return or stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest not knowing what he should save first before his attention was rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned a sign that of that there was no question. door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a Title: Metamorphosis broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back between all the easier". So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, License. You must require such a user to return or couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. people in all walks of life. sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him he do anything to make them look away. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her