Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal-"Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can't you? We can't keep up." So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges-"Go, you're free." Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know.
( Hilary Mantel )
[ A Place of Greater Safety ]
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