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The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Hardly aware of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too broad to get it all underneath. "If she didn't do it herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it" "she added "and by taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in between all the easier". Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the lack of any direct human communicatio...

زقاق المدق نجيب محفوظ هذا الزقاق لا يحوي إلا موتى. و ما دمت فيه فلن تحتاج يوما للدفن. إنه زقاق لا يعدل بين أهله، ولا يجزيهم على قدر حبهم له. كلمات الحب خليقة بأن تطرب الآذان و لو لم ترجع القلوب أنغامها. وما الدنيا - لو تعلمين - إلا أسماء اسم جميل. ومن جماله ألا معنى له. فالاسم الذي لا معنى له يحوي المعاني كلها. فلا يكاد يأتي المساء حتى يجر النسيان ذيوله على ما جاء به الصباح وانزاحت هذه الفقاعة أيضاً كسوابقها، واستوصى المدق بفضيلته الخالدة في النسيان و عدم الاكتراث، وظل كدأبه يبكي صباحاً -إذا عرض له البكاء - ويقهقه ضاحكا ً عند المساء ، وفيما بين هذا و ذاك تصر الأبواب و النوافذ وهي تفتح ثم تصر كرة أخرى وهي تغلق.