Long I waited to read some short stories, well, guess it is because that I am lazy to even go through the lines. A Chinese edition of "Letters to the young reporter: The Media Truth" sleeps in between the books that I have was there for sometime which I have forget, but something keep telling me to read metamorphosis, well may be I am just lazy to read at the Chinese characters (Well, that does not stop me from reading "The Duke of Mount Deer".)
The previous night was sleepless, I tried to close my eyes but I can't, the images keep repeating itself in my mind. I hope that dreaming this nightmare was just a dream, nothing more than just the annoying brain wanting to run from the leash I put on to it. Trying hard to push the dream away, I suddenly remember an article about Metamorphosis some years ago, a line: "What would you do, if you wake up in the morning finding yourself have transform in to a bug that reflects your true-self.".
On my bed I lay, eyes close, thinking of a bug or a creature or anything that I can reflect myself as. I open my eyes, I cried.
Have I lost the ability to dream, have I lost the wings that let me fly in the wonderland that my enemy is my friend and always a happy ending? Maybe I've grown up, maybe I am just lost in this world. The images of me comes and goes, the never stop, I faint.
Waking up on the next day, I decide to look for this book. Went around and found myself in the center of a bookshop. Books around me, stories came in like a wave that cleans the world. I start sitting down on the corner and read. Words slowly came out from their burrow, like a tunnel itself, they swallow me, brining me in to a world that time itself could not escape. The tunnel of words came after me so fast that I slipped. Falling and falling, places at the different end of the world came and go in front of my eyes. Then I notice, falling was just flying downwards. I close my eyes and let go of the fear go going downwards.
With a sudden shock, I was awake. found myself back in the center of the books and late for other appointments, quickly I rush off from the bookshop and head home for preparation.
Months passed. I tapped on the keyboard: "Media", looking at my bookmarks with a name it does not recall "Rick Walton's Online Library", going to the page, I found "The Gutenberg Project", a huge collection of public domain text and classic literature for reading and research. "The Gutenberg Project" main page was lifeless, right before I turn away, the word "Metamorphosis" surfaced.
Letter by letter I key in to it, the 'Go' button was small, I click and wait. Out of expectation it came out. Lie on the bed I read, the warmth of tunnel of words came slowly, engulf me to a world, which once I call dream.
Title: Metamorphosis
Author: Franz Kafka
Translator: David Wyllie
Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
Website: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
