Pain, Max realizes, reaches sooner or later a degree of saturation, after which the intensity is no longer important. From a certain point onwards, it doesn't matter if there are twenty or forty strokes. And since then every new blow does not hurt, but the break between one and the other. Because the hardest torment is not the beating, but the moments when the rider is interrupted to draw his soul. Then the grieving meat, which numbs when it is subject to violence, relaxes and truly feels the pain that tortures it. The result of the entire previous process.
Max understands that pain has a limit, where its intensity becomes irrelevant after a certain point. He perceives that once this threshold is reached, the number of blows becomes insignificant. The real suffering arises not from the strikes themselves, but from the pauses in between, moments of reflection where the true agony emerges.
In these intervals, the body, previously dulled by the assault, begins to feel again, revealing the depth of its torment. This insight highlights how the psychological aspects of suffering can often outweigh the physical pain, making the experience of pain more complex and deeply felt.
