Not That You Asked (9780307822215) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
We dream we suddenly discover a great athletic ability we have and win the big game or an Olympic gold medal; we think about having some distant relative die, leaving us an unexpected fortune; men dream of being in the company of Linda Evans, women in the company of Tom Selleck. Recently I’ve been having a more practical dream. In this fantasy of mine, I’m arrested for some small offense. The judge sentences me to a year in prison. I am taken to a cell ten feet long and eight feet wide. In the cell, there is a bed, a chair, a desk, a lamp with a 100-watt bulb, a typewriter, a stack of paper three feet tall and, on a shelf above the desk, ten books. Three times a day I am brought a simple, low-calorie meal that doesn’t appeal to me. Each morning at seven, I am forced to take one hour of strenuous exercise and then returned to my cell. There is no telephone available to me, no television, no newspapers. I am trapped with only myself for company. There’s no way to waste time, so I turn to the only things available to me, the typewriter and the books.
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