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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 would outlive him.

They could still have jumped into the boat, but the traveller picked up a heavy, knotted rope from the ground.

In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has declined significantly.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog!" he said, as if the shame would outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from restless dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. 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 get up and stretch her young body. "It's a peculiar device," said the officer to the explorer, surveying the device, which was well known to him, with a somewhat admiring gaze.

But they overcame their fears, crowded around the cage and did not want to leave. Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. "Like a dog!" he said, as if the shame would outlive him. When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from restless dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

A wonderful cheerfulness has taken hold of my whole soul, like the sweet spring mornings that I enjoy with all my heart. I am alone and enjoy my life in this area, which is made for souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so completely immersed in the feeling of peaceful existence that my art suffers as a result. I could not draw now, not a single line, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments.

When the lovely valley steams around me, and the high sun rests on the surface of the impenetrable darkness of my forest, and only a few rays steal into the inner sanctuary, I lie in the tall grass by the falling stream, and closer to the earth, a thousand varied grasses become strange to me; when I feel the teeming of the little world between the stalks, the countless, unfathomable forms of the worms, the mosquitoes closer to my heart, and feel the presence of the Almighty who created us in his image, the breath of the All-Loving One who carries and sustains us in eternal bliss; my friend!

Far away, behind the mountains of words, far from the lands of vowels and consonants, live the blind texts. They live secluded in Letterville on the coast of Semantics, a large ocean of language. A small stream called Duden flows through their town and provides them with the necessary rules. It is a paradisiacal land where fried sentence fragments fly into your mouth. Not even the almighty punctuation rules over the blind texts – a truly unorthographic life.

One day, however, a small line of dummy text, whose name was Lorem Ipsum, decided to go out into the wide world of grammar. The great Oxmox advised her against it, as it was teeming with evil commas, wild question marks and devious semicolons, but the little dummy text was not to be deterred. It grabbed its seven capital letters, tucked its initial into its belt and set off.

He heard quiet footsteps behind him. That didn't bode well. Who would follow him late at night, especially in this narrow alley in the middle of the notorious harbour district? Just when he had pulled off the heist of his life and was about to disappear with the loot! Had one of his countless colleagues had the same idea, watched him and waited to rob him of the fruits of his labour?

Or did the footsteps behind him belong to one of the countless law enforcement officers in this city, and would the steel cuffs around his wrists snap shut at any moment? He could already hear the demand to stop. He looked around frantically. Suddenly, he spotted the narrow passageway. He turned sharply to the right and disappeared between the two buildings. He almost tripped over the overturned rubbish bin that was lying in the middle of the path.

Once it had climbed the first hills of the Italic Mountains, it took one last look back at the skyline of its hometown, Letterville, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of its own street, Line Lane. A rhetorical question ran wistfully across its cheek, then it continued on its way. On the way, it met a copy. The copy warned the dummy text that where it came from, it would have been rewritten countless times and all that would remain of its origin would be the word "and" and that the dummy text should turn back and return to its own safe country.

But no amount of persuasion could convince it, and so it wasn't long before a few insidious copywriters lay in wait for it, got it drunk with long lines and slogans, and then dragged it back to their agency, where they abused it again and again for their projects. And if it wasn't rewritten, they still use it. Far away, behind the mountains of words, far from the lands of vowels and consonants, live the dummy texts. They live in seclusion.

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The time has come. After more than a decade of silence, Karnivool are back with In Verses — their fourth studio album. It feels a little more pop-oriented and tamer than their previous releases, but it's still highly recommended! The band is also on tour.