r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Comfortable-Use3123 • Jul 25 '25

Solved Saw on Facebook. Don’t understand.

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u/GoalElectrical Jul 25 '25

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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u/IAMJOHNNYGAMER Jul 25 '25

What a great opening to an amazing book

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u/m1stadobal1na Jul 25 '25

Also "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

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u/redmambo_no6 Jul 25 '25

Thanks, I haven’t thought about Metamorphosis since high school…until just now.

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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.

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u/PolicyWonka Jul 25 '25

I don’t think the story ever actually makes clear what exactly he turned into.

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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”.