Friday, January 11, 2008

Orange You Glad You're Complicit?


“There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

--Umberto Eco

Six years of a illegal prison with specious motives is six years too many.

1 Comments:

Blogger Matt Eckel said...

Is that from "The Name of the Rose"? It's been a while since I picked up anything by Eco.

3:49 PM  

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