Daily Dose

From The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

STAYED

"He stayed there all night, spending the time partly in a light slumber, from which his hunger kept waking him up with a start, and partly in worrying and sketching vague hopes, which all led to the same conclusion, that he must lie low for the present and, by exercising patience and the utmost consideration, help the family to bear the inconvenience he was bound to cause them in his present condition."

From page 90, this edition