Hell And Gone
“The same idea as in the cafeteria, where customers serve themselves.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit THE PRISONMASTER LISTENED…and waited. He had his finger on the trigger, but he didn’t want to deploy the gas until the last possible moment.
So they’d discovered the truth about the so-called death mechanism. Other groups of prisoners had figured it out, too. But not many. The death mechanism was the one lie that every inmate believed at face value. Over the years, some had tried to work their way u...p the elevator shaft to see if they could disable the nonexistent mechanism, but such efforts were always thwarted by the guards, sworn to uphold their duty.
Twice before, an inmate had made it up to the waiting room, intent on escape, knowing that he was damning everyone else to death.
And the result was the same: the confused inmate took the elevator back down to the main floor to report his horrifying discovery: There is no way out!
The first time it happened, the guards reasserted their authority and slipped back into their roles.MoreLess
—Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit THE PRISONMASTER LISTENED…and waited. He had his finger on the trigger, but he didn’t want to deploy the gas until the last possible moment.
So they’d discovered the truth about the so-called death mechanism. Other groups of prisoners had figured it out, too. But not many. The death mechanism was the one lie that every inmate believed at face value. Over the years, some had tried to work their way u...p the elevator shaft to see if they could disable the nonexistent mechanism, but such efforts were always thwarted by the guards, sworn to uphold their duty.
Twice before, an inmate had made it up to the waiting room, intent on escape, knowing that he was damning everyone else to death.
And the result was the same: the confused inmate took the elevator back down to the main floor to report his horrifying discovery: There is no way out!
The first time it happened, the guards reasserted their authority and slipped back into their roles.MoreLess
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