You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, brea...thing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social instituti...ons, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All stars stand close in summer air And tremble, and look mild as amber;... When wicks are lighted in the chamber You might say stars were settling there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you'v...e been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it,... Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another day. Deliberations are recessed In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon... On which we wore things and looked well at A slab of business rising behind the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course, Behaviorism "works." So does torture. Give me a no- nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electr...ical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and tur...n him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »