One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.Â
‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out (Samsa was a traveling salesman) hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm disappeared.
23 Comments
funkajunk@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 37d
I don't understand the beetle in bed reference
dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz · 41 pts · 37d
Kafka
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 37d
kreekybonez@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 36d
torch everything!
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 36d
Son of a submariner!
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 36d
You all sound like chapters from a self-help book!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d
"Hee, hee! Nothing can beat the music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison!"
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 37d
It represents Kafka's allegory for existential alienation, dehumanization, and the absurdity of modern life.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 37d
Aka the human condition
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 37d
🎼I talk too much
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 36d
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Empathy, right at you man. (You deleted, so I'll skip the details).
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 36d
Yeah I felt like it got too personal for public record lol
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 36d
Please note it's 41 pages
iocase@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 37d
It's me
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 37d
Don't worry, the legs on the right are those of the trolley mechanic fixing the brakes because of the numerous reports of them somehow failing.
cowboydan@quokk.au · 20 pts · 37d
Is it the train car from fallout?
realitista@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 36d
What's in the upper right hand corner?
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 36d
Looks like the bug from Kafkas Metamorphosis to me
realitista@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 36d
Left of that and slightly above
starik@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 36d
Plato’s allegory of the cave
Speiser0@feddit.org · 6 pts · 36d
Who's the one on the bottom left?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
That's just the "nothing ever happens" guy. I don't think it has any origin in philosophy or ethics, just a meme.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 36d
Holy shit, haha