Saudades de Roma/ Missing Roma

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose

Dia do Kafka / Kafka's birthday

Uma homenagem a Kafka!
Hommage to Kafka!

Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka

Translated by David Wyllie

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

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