Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 6/25/03: They say that prisoners who've been jailed for many years come to fear the thought of freedom.

Jacob Lawrence, " The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 37," (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 37. Toussaint is taken to Paris and imprisoned in the dungeon of the Castle Joux, August 17, 1802. This was the worst punishment Napoleon could have given him. Toussaint brooded. (1938)

Can a Game Be Literature?

June 25, 2003:

They say that prisoners who've been jailed for many years come to fear the thought of freedom.

You chose exile. Why tremble to end it?