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| 9 | 183 | On the View more quotes about second">second day, lying prone on the floor, arms and legs spread, facing the back, I had begged permission to speak. |
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| 9 | 180 | I still did not know if I might use my hands to feed myself. |
| 9 | 181 | That information had not been included in what might count as my "orientation," that issued to me on the morning after my first night in the cell. |
| 9 | 182 | Indeed, my "orientation" had consisted only in directives, and a spelling out, so to speak, of the rules of my incarceration. |
| 9 | 183 | On the second day, lying prone on the floor, arms and legs spread, facing the back, I had begged permission to speak. |
| 9 | 184 | There were so many things I wanted to know, where I was, and such, not just such small things as whether or not I might use my hands to feed myself. |
| 9 | 185 | "May I speak?" I had begged. |
| 9 | 186 | "No," I had been told. |