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...when a truckload of soup stood ready to be unloaded and passed out by a detachment of police, the hungry prisoners were hammering and pounding at the rotted wooden doors that closed their cells. A few of the old doors gave way, and the suddenly freed men began freeing their fellow prisoners. "We're hungry," they shouted, and when nothing happened, they began tossing machinery and empty food carts into the courtyard. The more diligent of the inmates began making bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose...
...Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...
...arrival war broke out in the Balkans, and Nuri went off to the front, but he and Jafar became convinced that advancement was being systematically denied them because they were Arabs. "If we are foreigners, then let's be foreigners," said Nuri. He took over leadership of a cell in the secret Covenant society plotting Arab independence from the decadent and dying Ottoman empire. All cell members wore hooded red gowns at meetings to keep their identity secret from each other -except Nuri whose identity had to be known. Once one of the officers sent word to Nuri that...
Conversations in the simple system Koestler had described, relayed from one cell to another, were slow and ceased altogether when suspicious guards were listening, or the prison plumbing gurgled. Then Florence tensely listening discovered that her footsteps could be heard by Ignotus, and a new system of slow and heavy pacing was adopted. In the next year of paced conversations, Paul and Florence carried out one of history's unique courtships. Says she: "I never walked so much in my life...
...longer and "more frivolous." They talked about their favorite authors, especially Thomas Mann, their health, their childhood-intimacies trudgingly told. One day Paul idly asked Florence how she was dressed. She described her clothes, was playfully beginning a description of her underwear when Paul began stamping heavily on his cell floor. Thumped he: "I won't have my future wife discussing her underclothes in the presence of strangers." After that they discussed marriage, a honeymoon, children. Ignotus began writing poems to Florence, one of which, happily paced out, began: Despite the iron bars and wall I hold her hand...