Not one of the prisoners regained sexual balance.
Depressions, impotency, sleeplessness ... erotic
dispersion in languages, reading, games, music,
and gymnastics.
The prisoners built their own theater which
testified to an incredible surfeit of leisure.
A young sailor, forced into female roles, soon
became the“town”darling, for by this time they
called themselves a town, and elected a mayor,
police, aldermen.
In old Russia, the Czar, each year, granted─
out of the shrewdness of his own soul or one of
his advisors'─a week's freedom for one convict
in each of his prisons. The choice was left to the
prisoners themselves and it was determined in
several ways. Sometimes by vote, sometimes by lot,
often by force. It was apparent that the chosen
must be a man of magic, virility, experience,
perhaps narrative skill, a man of possiblity, in
short, a hero. Impossible situation at the
moment of freedom, impossible selection,
defining our world in its percussions.
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