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" As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. "
I Am
Ghost
Dead
" Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. "
Us
Deep
Innocent
" I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. "
Weeks
Escaped
Free
" I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. "
Mirror
Painful
Look
" I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. "
Try
Years
Routine
" Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. "
Daily
Day
Life
" I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. "
Say
Prison
American
" My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. "
Seek
I Am
Brain
" Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. "
Done
Your
Even
" One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. "
Free
Morning
Up
" Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. "
Cause
School
Reason
" That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. "
Life
Prison
Inside
" The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. "
Run
Past
Long
" The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. "
Me
Emotions
Never
" There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. "
Finding
Trial
Support
" To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. "
Long
You
Remember
" When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. "
Crowd
I Can
Circumstances
" When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. "
Ghosts
Night
Experience
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