Jack Abbott
Jack Abbott
long might pressure
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
moving passion mind
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
mirrors looks painful
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
night subjectivity ghost
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
anger moments imagine
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
world illusion release
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
long ghost i-can
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
morning forgotten psychological
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.