The Pit and the Pendulum

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Upon arousing, I found by my side, as before, a loaf and a pitcher of water. A burning thirst consumed me, and I emptied the vessel at a draught. It must have been drugged; for scarcely had I drunk, before I became irresistibly drowsy. A deep sleep fell upon me—a sleep like that of death. How long it lasted of course, I know not; but when, once again, I unclosed my eyes, the objects around me were visible. By a wild sulphurous lustre, the origin of which I could not at first determine, I was enabled to see the extent and aspect of the prison."},{"id":"id11:19","kind":"paragraph","text":"In its size I had been greatly mistaken. The whole circuit of its walls did not exceed twenty-five yards. For some minutes this fact occasioned me a world of vain trouble; vain indeed! for what could be of less importance, under the terrible circumstances which environed me, then the mere dimensions of my dungeon? But my soul took a wild interest in trifles, and I busied myself in endeavors to account for the error I had committed in my measurement. The truth at length flashed upon me. In my first attempt at exploration I had counted fifty-two paces, up to the period when I fell; I must then have been within a pace or two of the fragment of serge; in fact, I had nearly performed the circuit of the vault. I then slept, and upon awaking, I must have returned upon my steps—thus supposing the circuit nearly double what it actually was. My confusion of mind prevented me from observing that I began my tour with the wall to the left, and ended it with the wall to the right."},{"id":"id11:20","kind":"paragraph","text":"I had been deceived, too, in respect to the shape of the enclosure. In feeling my way I had found many angles, and thus deduced an idea of great irregularity; so potent is the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from lethargy or sleep! The angles were simply those of a few slight depressions, or niches, at odd intervals. The general shape of the prison was square. What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression. The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise. The figures of fiends in aspects of menace, with skeleton forms, and other more really fearful images, overspread and disfigured the walls. I observed that the outlines of these monstrosities were sufficiently distinct, but that the colors seemed faded and blurred, as if from the effects of a damp atmosphere. I now noticed the floor, too, which was of stone. In the centre yawned the circular pit from whose jaws I had escaped; but it was the only one in the dungeon."},{"id":"id11:21","kind":"paragraph","text":"All this I saw indistinctly and by much effort: for my personal condition had been greatly changed during slumber. I now lay upon my back, and at full length, on a species of low framework of wood. To this I was securely bound by a long strap resembling a surcingle. It passed in many convolutions about my limbs and body, leaving at liberty only my head, and my left arm to such extent that I could, by dint of much exertion, supply myself with food from an earthen dish which lay by my side on the floor. I saw, to my horror, that the pitcher had been removed. I say to my horror; for I was consumed with intolerable thirst. This thirst it appeared to be the design of my persecutors to stimulate: for the food in the dish was meat pungently seasoned."},{"id":"id11:22","kind":"paragraph","text":"Looking upward, I surveyed the ceiling of my prison. It was some thirty or forty feet overhead, and constructed much as the side walls. In one of its panels a very singular figure riveted my whole attention. It was the painted figure of Time as he is commonly represented, save that, in lieu of a scythe, he held what, at a casual glance, I supposed to be the pictured image of a huge pendulum such as we see on antique clocks. There was something, however, in the appearance of this machine which caused me to regard it more attentively. While I gazed directly upward at it (for its position was immediately over my own) I fancied that I saw it in motion. In an instant afterward the fancy was confirmed. Its sweep was brief, and of course slow. I watched it for some minutes, somewhat in fear, but more in wonder. Wearied at length with observing its dull movement, I turned my eyes upon the other objects in the cell."},{"id":"id11:23","kind":"paragraph","text":"A slight noise attracted my notice, and, looking to the floor, I saw several enormous rats traversing it. They had issued from the well, which lay just within view to my right. Even then, while I gazed, they came up in troops, hurriedly, with ravenous eyes, allured by the scent of the meat. From this it required much effort and attention to scare them away."},{"id":"id11:24","kind":"paragraph","text":"It might have been half an hour, perhaps even an hour, (for I could take but imperfect note of time) before I again cast my eyes upward. What I then saw confounded and amazed me. The sweep of the pendulum had increased in extent by nearly a yard. As a natural consequence, its velocity was also much greater. But what mainly disturbed me was the idea that had perceptibly descended. I now observed—with what horror it is needless to say—that its nether extremity was formed of a crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward, and the under edge evidently as keen as that of a razor. Like a razor also, it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above. It was appended to a weighty rod of brass, and the whole hissed as it swung through the air."},{"id":"id11:25","kind":"paragraph","text":"I could no longer doubt the doom prepared for me by monkish ingenuity in torture. My cognizance of the pit had become known to the inquisitorial agents—the pit whose horrors had been destined for so bold a recusant as myself—the pit, typical of hell, and regarded by rumor as the Ultima Thule of all their punishments. The plunge into this pit I had avoided by the merest of accidents, I knew that surprise, or entrapment into torment, formed an important portion of all the grotesquerie of these dungeon deaths. Having failed to fall, it was no part of the demon plan to hurl me into the abyss; and thus (there being no alternative) a different and a milder destruction awaited me. Milder! I half smiled in my agony as I thought of such application of such a term."}],"toc":[{"id":"id11:0:1","label":"The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/222PdRBQ#reader-content"}]},"similarBooks":[{"idCatalog":9313,"shortId":"1rc3PSZr","title":"Мастер и Маргарита","authorLine":"Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков","primaryAuthorId":"2bd2e67f-2a82-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/4a07a33f-4a51-11e5-87ef-0025905a06ea/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/1rc3PSZr"},{"idCatalog":648940,"shortId":"1gkuwFig","title":"Изгнанник Ардена","authorLine":"Freedom, Софи Анри","primaryAuthorId":"c6365023-3cb7-11ec-8d3b-0cc47a5f137d","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/41d12354-1776-11f0-8ce3-0cc47af30fe4/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/1gkuwFig"},{"idCatalog":75738,"shortId":"0FN1YbN2","title":"Мёртвая зона","authorLine":"Стивен Кинг, Виктор Валентинович Антонов","primaryAuthorId":"ebcd0396-2a80-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/7b04b86a-2768-11e2-86b3-b737ee03444a/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/0FN1YbN2"},{"idCatalog":328912,"shortId":"21bU3TEI","title":"Институт","authorLine":"Стивен Кинг, Екатерина Михайловна Доброхотова-Майкова","primaryAuthorId":"ebcd0396-2a80-102a-9ae1-2dfe723fe7c7","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/36ad2163-676b-11ea-9c12-0cc47a5f3f85/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/21bU3TEI"},{"idCatalog":389158,"shortId":"2FtaBl32","title":"Четыре жизни Хелен Ламберт","authorLine":"Констанс Сэйерс, INSPIRIA, Ольга Сергеевна Захватова","primaryAuthorId":"5454af2e-7ccf-11eb-9deb-441ea152441c","coverUrl":"https://storage.yandexcloud.net/bookra-catalog-litres-public/content/6c268dbd-7ccf-11eb-8996-0cc47a5f137d/thumbs/400.webp","publicUrl":"https://bookra.app/books/2FtaBl32"},{"idCatalog":271480,"shortId":"2CK3rTeY","title":"Скорбь Сатаны","authorLine":"Мария Корелли, Е. 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