Poe, Edgar Allen - The Pit and the Pendulum

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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

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The pit and the pendulum

By Edgar Allan Poe

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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

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Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores

Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit.

Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro,

Mors ubi dira fuit, vita salusque patent.

[Here the wicked mob, unappeased,

long cherished a hatred of innocent blood.

Now that the fatherland is saved, and the cave of death demolished;

where grim death has been, life and health appear.]

I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me,

and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence -- the

dread sentence of death -- was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.

After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy

indeterminate hum. It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolution -- perhaps from its

association in fancy with the burr of a mill-wheel. This only for a brief period; for

presently I heard no more. Yet, for a while, I saw; but with how terrible an exaggeration!

I saw the lips of the black-robed judges. They appeared to me white -- whiter than the

sheet upon which I trace these words -- and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the

intensity of their expression

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of firmness -- of immoveable resolution -- of stern contempt of human torture. I saw that

the decrees of what to me was Fate, were still issuing from those lips. I saw them writhe

with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name; and I shuddered

because no sound succeeded. I saw, too, for a few moments of delirious horror, the soft

and nearly imperceptible waving of the sable draperies which enwrapped the walls of the

apartment. And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the table. At first

they wore the aspect of charity, and seemed white slender angels who would save me; but

then, all at once, there came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fibre in

my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery, while the angel forms

became meaningless spectres, with heads of flame, and I saw that from them there would

be no help. And there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what

sweet rest there must be in the grave. The thought came gently and stealthily, and it

seemed long before it attained full appreciation; but just as my spirit came at length

properly to feel and entertain it, the figures of the judges vanished, as if magically, from

before me; the tall candles sank into nothingness; their flames went out utterly; the

blackness of darkness supervened; all sensation appeared swallowed up in that mad

rushing descent as of the soul into Hades. Then silence, and stillness, and night were the

universe.

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