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Metamorphosis - Part I

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When Gregor Samsa wakes from troubled dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lays on his armour-like back, and if he lifts his head a little he can see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding is hardly able to cover it and seems ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, wave about helplessly...

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Posted on 8 May '08 by wgb, under Franz Kafka.

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