10. It was very easy to throw aside the blanket. He needed only to push
himself up a little, and it 31) fell by itself. But to continue was difficult,
particularly because he was so unusually wide. He needed arms and
hands to push himself upright. Instead of these, however, he had only
many 32) small limbs which were incessantly moving with very different
motions and which, in addition, he was unable to control. If he wanted
to bend one of them, then it was the first to extend itself, and if he finally
succeeded doing with this limb what he wanted, in the meantime all the
others, as if left free, moved around in an excessively painful agitation.
'But I must not stay in 33) bed uselessly,' said Gregor to himself.