"He beats his chains against the wall, his neck cords thick. He is in a rage to be free, has at times glimmerings of hope, as though imagining creates it, thinks of it as close by, about to happen if he breathes right, or thinks the one right thought. Maybe a wall will collapse, or sunrise burn through it and make an opening as large as a man’s body. Or he will remember where he has hidden a book that will tell him how to walk with ease through a locked-and-twelve-times-bolted door. ‘I’ll live,’ he shouts in his cell, ‘I’ll wait, I’ll come to my trial.’ Berezhinsky opens the spy hole, inserts his rifle, and sights along the barrel at the fixer’s genitals."
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