Nellija’s Reviews > Metamorphosis and Other Stories > Status Update

Someone needs to teach him what a paragraph is , cause it sure as hell shouldn’t be three pages long 😭😭

Investigations of a dog is such a weird story, it felt like just one big blob with no surface but with a meaning (?)

Like there were so many extractable quotes and sentences but because of how watery it all was you can’t really extract them or really do much about it except wonder (only to realize you no longer understand shit of what Kafka’s trying to say with the story)

I noticed from almost invisible indications (..) that in the depths of his chest the hound was preparing to upraise a song. 'You're going to sing,' I said 'Yes,' he replied gravely, 'I'm going to sing, soon, but not yet.' 'You're beginning already. I said. 'No,' he said, 'not yet.
But be prepared.' 'I can hear it already, though you deny it,' I said, trembling. He was silent (..)

Dogs? On their HIND legs?? What atrocities, what sinners, what disgraces to the pack of dogs lmao

“Consider rather the river in spring. It rises until it grows mightier and nourishes more richly the soil (..), until it reaches the sea, where it is all the more welcome (..) - Thus far may you urge your meditations (..) - But after that the river overflows its banks, loses outline and shape, slows down the speed of its current, (..) damages the fields, (..) Thus far may you not urge your meditations (..)”

Metamorphosis is actually a lot better of a story then I was expecting, like I knew the whole thing with him turning into a beetle but the way it was portrayed and how his change impacted his family is really off putting and fascinating

Beetles