57. Back to this, are we? The silent treatment? Should I fear some new, as-yet-unthought-of, perhaps unspeakable torture? Cruel and unusual?

The hole?

Bamboo shoots under my fingernails?

The Wheel?

The Iron Maiden?

Chinese water torture?

Boiling in oil?

Murder holes.

Electrodes attached to my . . . it hurts me to think about this.

It hurts me to think.

58.