Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog!" he said; it was as if the shame was meant to outlive him. When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. And it was like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when, at the end of their journey, the daughter was the first to rise and stretch her young body. "It is a peculiar apparatus," said the officer to the researcher, casting a somewhat admiring glance at the apparatus that was nevertheless well known to him. They could still have jumped into the boat, but the traveler lifted a heavy, knotted rope from the ground, threatened them with it, and thus prevented them from jumping. In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly declined. But they overcame themselves, surrounded the cage, and did not want to budge at all. Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog!" he said; it was as if the shame was meant to outlive him. When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself