Upon waking up after a troublesome dream one morning, Gregor Zamza realized that he had turned into a hideous insect.
Lying on a hard shell that was now his back, he saw, with a mere move of his head, his brown, bulgy, scaly stomach, on top of which lied a blanket that was clearly about to fall down. His numerous, pathetically thin, compared to the rest of his body, legs floundered helplessly in front of his eyes.
-- "The Metamorphisis", by Franz Kafka