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he was stuck fast and would have not been able to move any
more on his own. The tiny legs on one side hung twitch-
ing in the air above, the ones on the other side were pushed
painfully into the floor. Then his father gave him one really
strong liberating push from behind, and he scurried, bleed-
ing severely, far into the interior of his room. The door was
slammed shut with the cane, and finally it was quiet.
The Metamorphosis
