The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My family's lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it... did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor--hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm push...ed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a co...nvincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something ...you can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staf...f are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope "Legal Mail." This way it will surely be read. It's important that we educate everybody as we go along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under his coat--and I see it warn't no perfumer...y either, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldn't stand it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »