Breaking free from confinement has been a driving theme for authors as diverse as Jane Austen, Henri Charrière and Geoffrey Household
I did some hard time in Alcatraz – the walking tour, then the gift shop. Three hours, maybe even three and a half, but that was long enough. A burly ex-guard led my tour party round his former workplace. He’d written a memoir, which he kept mentioning as he took us through the bleak horrors. Gleefully, he led us into the concrete recreation yard, the library, the kitchen. At the climax came the solitary confinement cell – “the Hole”. It was basically a coffin with a slightly higher ceiling.
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