Darius hunkered down beside her so he was at eye level with her. “Does anyone else besides me ever get the urge to throw things at you?” She sounded drowsy, not combative. I will not listen to any arguments.” Tempest was already lying down. “Darius glided toward Tempest in his silent, intimidating way. Once I've got together the money to pay off my parents' debt to him-that should take another five or six years-I'll do it for sure. Anyway, I haven't completely given up that hope yet. The boss has trouble hearing, so the employee has to step up quite close to him. He would've fallen right off his desk! How weird it is to sit up at that desk and talk down to the employee from way up there. I would've gone to the boss and told him just what I think from the bottom of my heart. Still, who knows whether that mightn't be really good for me? If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I'd have quit ages ago. If I were to try that with my boss, I'd be thrown out on the spot. For instance, when I come back to the inn during the course of the morning to write up the necessary orders, these gentlemen are just sitting down to breakfast. Other travelling salesmen live like harem women. "This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic. “He slid back again into his earlier position. ― Franz Kafka, quote from The Metamorphosis ![]() They had just gotten used to it, the family as well as Gregor, the money was received with thanks and given with pleasure, but no special feeling of warmth went with it any more. Those had been the wonderful times, and they had never returned, at least not with the same glory, although later on Gregor earned enough money to meet the expenses of the entire family and actually did so. And so he had begun to work with special ardor and had risen almost overnight from stock clerk to traveling salesman, which of course had opened up very different money-making possibilities, and in no time his successes on the job were transformed, by means of commissions, into hard cash that could be plunked down on the table at home in front of his astonished and delighted family. In those days Gregor's sole concern had been to do everything in his power to make the family forget as quickly as possible the business disaster which had plunged everyone into a state of total despair. ![]() “He had always believed that his father had not been able to save a penny from the business, at least his father had never told him anything to the contrary, and Gregor, for his part, had never asked him any questions.
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