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Friday, December 7th, 2007
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5:38 pm - Born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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"When, in 1960, Gennady Smelov, a nonpolitical offender, declared a lengthy hunger strike in the Leningrad prison, the prosecutor went to his cell for some reason (perhaps he was making his regular rounds) and asked him: 'Why are you torturing yourself?'
And Smelov replied: 'Justice is more precious to me than life.'
This phrase so astonished the prosecutor with its irrelevance that the very next day Smelov was taken to the Leningrad Special Hospital (i.e., the insane asylum) for prisoners. And the doctor there told him:
'We suspect you may be a schizophrenic.'"
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
current mood: invictus
current music: Gary Numan and Rico - Crazier (Slide Mix)
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