Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one morning. “Like a dog!” he said; it was as if the shame would outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
And it seemed to them 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 device,” said the officer to the explorer, casting a somewhat admiring glance at the apparatus that was nevertheless quite familiar to him.
