MDDM18: Himself a Giant Bug

[Dave Monroe]

   "That's it, then.  Himself a giant Bug, he rolls
quietly from under the Counterpane and crawls from the
Room,-- dresses in the Hallway and upon the Stairs,
and is soon insensibly translated into The Orchid
Tavern, by Dock Creek ..." (M&D, Ch. 29, p. 293)

Cf. ...

   "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy
dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a
gigantic insect.  He was lying on his hard, as it were
armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a
little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided
into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed
quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to
slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were
pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved
helplessly before his eyes.
   "What has happened to me? he thought. It was no
dream....

[...]

   "His immediate intention was to get up quietly
without being disturbed, to put on his clothes and
above all eat his breakfast, and only then to consider
what else was to be done, since in bed, he was well
aware, his meditations would come to no sensible
conclusion...."

Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" (1915) ...

http://www.vr.net/~herzogbr/kafka/meta.htm

"The Bugs run free,--- American bugs, who so much
resent being brush'd off Human Surfaces, that they
will bite anyone for even approaching" (M&D, Ch. 29,
p. 293).  Where are Mason and Dixon staying again? 

http://www.keysan.com/lagasse/vclo0204.jpg

Visitors check in, but they don't check out ...





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