Em A Metamorfose, famosa obra de Franz Kafka, um homem acorda certo dia transformado em barata; já em uma história homônima de Luis Fernando Veríssimo, a barata é que vira gente!!!

Como você reagiria se de repente se visse

transformado em “algo”?

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One day a cockroach woke up as a human being.

She She stood up with stood up with difficulty difficulty (because she (because she now had only now had only two legs).two legs).

She saw herself in the mirror. Her first human thought: “Shame on me! I´m naked!”

She needed a name, so she called herself Donna Bharat.

In a short time Donna Bharat realized it was not easy to be a human being. She had to work a lot and earned very little money.

Fortunately one day she met a handsome inteligent rich man. (In fact he was rather stingy as well.)

They got married.

They had ten healthy lovely children.

But Donna Bharat soon realized it was not easy to be a wife and mother.

She had to buy food, cook it, do the dishes, clean the house and so on. She didn´t have much time for herself. She used to think: “What a boring world! Life itself is tedious!”

Many years later her children left home to live by themselves.

Donna Bharat went on living her tedious life till one day she woke up as a cockroach.

Her last thought: “My goodness! I have to protect myself!” She was going to hide under the bed as an act of pure instinct when her husbund stepped on her...

MORAL: Don´t behave like na insect, or you´ll turn into one.

Música: Butterfly Boucher – ChangesFonte: http://vagalume.uol.com.br/shrek/butterfly-boucher-changes.html Acesso: 05/02/2010 às 11:40

Texto: Methamorfosis (inspired by Luis Fernando Verissimo´s “Metamorfose”) – Mariza Ferrari e Sarah G. Rubin