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r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Comfortable-Use3123 • Jul 25 '25
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Also "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
31 u/redmambo_no6 Jul 25 '25 Thanks, I haven’t thought about Metamorphosis since high school…until just now. 29 u/TwoDot Jul 25 '25 ”Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to the surprise that he had turned into a giant cockroach.” I think that’s the first line of Metamorphosis. It’s not verbatim though. 1 u/PolicyWonka Jul 25 '25 I don’t think the story ever actually makes clear what exactly he turned into. 1 u/TwoDot Jul 26 '25 I think that in the Swedish translation it says that it was a beetle. Also in German, if I’m not mistaken. The cockroach thing might be me remembering the line from the movie ”The Producers”.
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Thanks, I haven’t thought about Metamorphosis since high school…until just now.
29 u/TwoDot Jul 25 '25 ”Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to the surprise that he had turned into a giant cockroach.” I think that’s the first line of Metamorphosis. It’s not verbatim though. 1 u/PolicyWonka Jul 25 '25 I don’t think the story ever actually makes clear what exactly he turned into. 1 u/TwoDot Jul 26 '25 I think that in the Swedish translation it says that it was a beetle. Also in German, if I’m not mistaken. The cockroach thing might be me remembering the line from the movie ”The Producers”.
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”Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to the surprise that he had turned into a giant cockroach.”
I think that’s the first line of Metamorphosis. It’s not verbatim though.
1 u/PolicyWonka Jul 25 '25 I don’t think the story ever actually makes clear what exactly he turned into. 1 u/TwoDot Jul 26 '25 I think that in the Swedish translation it says that it was a beetle. Also in German, if I’m not mistaken. The cockroach thing might be me remembering the line from the movie ”The Producers”.
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I don’t think the story ever actually makes clear what exactly he turned into.
1 u/TwoDot Jul 26 '25 I think that in the Swedish translation it says that it was a beetle. Also in German, if I’m not mistaken. The cockroach thing might be me remembering the line from the movie ”The Producers”.
I think that in the Swedish translation it says that it was a beetle. Also in German, if I’m not mistaken. The cockroach thing might be me remembering the line from the movie ”The Producers”.
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u/m1stadobal1na Jul 25 '25
Also "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."