The Metamorphosis :: The (Pi)thy Library :: Christopher Louvet

The (Pi)thy Library

What is this anyway?

Mathematically derived texts based on ten words chosen at random from a single text—currently from The Metamorphosis.

Refresh the page for a new "poem" with different punctuation, line lengths, and stanza lengths. The words used will remain consistent.

The Metamorphosis

abridged, after Franz Kafka

Gregor; desperate? Realized
desperate, cockroach, manager: condemned transformed cockroach

Gregor: cockroach; father manager, locksmith manager!
Gregor condemned Gregor father,

realized transformed condemned transformed; realized Gregor
Gregor father Gregor

condemned—locksmith—manager; cockroach dumbfounded—
condemned father father: realized; desperate? Manager

locksmith desperate transformed, manager
Gregor manager, manager Gregor locksmith

cockroach desperate dumbfounded cockroach
father condemned dumbfounded manager.

Locksmith realized manager realized:
realized? Cockroach manager condemned, Gregor;

dumbfounded locksmith. Father desperate transformed
realized—dumbfounded; transformed condemned father

transformed condemned; dumbfounded father manager; manager,
father transformed condemned!

Father dumbfounded Gregor:
realized; father condemned cockroach

Gregor realized: condemned desperate desperate.
Locksmith dumbfounded transformed locksmith.

Manager.

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