'This Blinding Absence Of Light' (3)

 is much like the prison it describes,
not a place for the weak of constitution,

it being a narrative about life as prisoner
in a Moroccan prison where the indifference
of the guards is a mercy, the active attention
of the guards is a test of the prisoner' will to live.

But every so often an uplifting quote comes up,
where why the prisoners were so stubborn
as to want to live is made clearer...

Chapter 8 Page 35

'So, for eighteen years, more precisely, for 6,663 days, I was nourished only on starchy food and dry bread. Never any meat. Never any fish. Nourished is not the word. Kept alive. It did not take me long to forget cigarettes, I didn't even suffer through the miserable deprivation that drove Larbi-Number 4-off his head. He would scream, rip his only shirt, call the guards, offer them anything for a cigarette.'.

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