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RE: NFC: Gregor.

I meant the refference... regardless:
Metemorphisis at its most base level is the story of a guy named Gregor
who "awoke one morning to find he had been transformed into a giant
insect" or something similar to that (the first line.)  The story is
however much more, Gregor's metemorphisis symbolises a latter
metemorphisis his family goes through, and in a way is a small microcosm
of the real world.... and so on. :)  Its a relatively easy story to find
in any collection of classic short stories - one which is fun to read.
Anyhow... the name simply comes from him being a giant beatle... even
though, I believe, he's a bug (Hemiptera) and not a beetle (Coleoptera.) 

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Michael Granville wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:43:35 -0700 
> From: Michael Granville <GRANM at COSMODYNE_com>
> Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
> To: nfc at actwin_com
> Subject: RE: NFC: Gregor.
> 
> Yes, but you asked the "meaning", not the reference.  What is it?  Sorry, I
> am not familiar with Kafka's work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael Granville
> Torrance, CA
> 
> granm at cosmodyne_com
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Joshua L Wiegert [SMTP:joshuaw at paul_paulsmiths.edu]
> > Sent:	Friday, April 09, 1999 2:33 PM
> > To:	nfc at actwin_com
> > Subject:	Re: NFC: Gregor.
> > 
> > Ok, someone won a virtual cookie. :)
> > 
> >  end
> >  ><>
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> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Zitnik wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:26:03 -0500
> > > From: David Zitnik <daz1 at Ra_MsState.Edu>
> > > Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
> > > To: nfc at actwin_com
> > > Subject: Re: NFC: Gregor.
> > > 
> > > Is ti from Kafka's The Metamorphosis?  Gregor Samsa?
> > > David
> > > 
> > > Joshua L Wiegert wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hey All.
> > > >   Just thought I'd tel everyone about my most recent ... weirdism. :)
> > > >   Last night, my suitemates and I decided to go "peeping."  No, not
> > THAT
> > > > kind of peeping. :p  Peeping as in hunting for the first few wpring
> > > > peepers at night.  Unfortunately, the temperature dropped and we
> > didn't
> > > > hear/see/catch any (just as well, the one thing no one figured out
> > ahead
> > > > of time was what we would do with them once caught. :)  However, aside
> > > > from finding a nice place where lots of minnows could be found, a few
> > > > crayfish, and seeing a pair of beaver, we found Gregor... a large
> > (2-3,"
> > > > being conservative) predatious beetle.  He's now living in a cookie
> > tray
> > > > on our sink... We threw him and the other catch ( a signel itty bitty
> > > > crawdad, a few Trichoptera) in there with some Java Fern, a few hunks
> > of
> > > > coconut shell and.. ahem the lids off a few jars (Hey, we were
> > > > improvising. :)
> > > >    So far so good.. he killed and ate part of the feeder gldfish we
> > threw
> > > > in there.
> > > >    This should be a pretty interesting thing to try, keeping something
> > > > like that for a time being.
> > > >
> > > >   To whoever gets the meaning of the bugs name, "Gregor,"  I grant a
> > free
> > > > cookie (albeit, a virtual cookie.)
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