| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 7 | When one reaches one View more quotes about thousand">thousand one may rise, and fetch the food and water bowls, and the clean wastes vessel, from just within the bars, where they have been left. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 4 | One begins to count when one hears the gate lower and lock. |
| 9 | 5 | One does not know if, or how long, someone might watch, and listen, to see if the directive is honored. |
| 9 | 6 | So one counts aloud, and slowly. |
| 9 | 7 | When one reaches one thousand one may rise, and fetch the food and water bowls, and the clean wastes vessel, from just within the bars, where they have been left. |
| 9 | 8 | One knows when to place them before the bars because there is a signal, the ringing of a suspended bar, from somewhere outside. |
| 9 | 9 | At the signal one puts the empty bowls and the wastes vessel near the bars, and then assumes the indicated position, one of prone helplessness, facing the back of the cell. |
| 9 | 10 | I had received these directives on the morning after my first night in the cell. |