we got there. The prisoner that he begins by discussing is drawn and quartered and torn apart by horses; I'll make this brief. Lava is sort of -- or sulphur -- is poured into his wounds and set on fire. Now I don't need to go into detail; you understand these medieval tortures; they are well known. The condemned man must, as it were, the priest comes up and the condemned man must make his honourable announcement before God that he understands the justice of the punishment, and of course after the punishment has begun this is not a hard thing to get him to do, and so the book begins with him kissing the cross and making his "honourable amends"; would be an English way to say it, and then they continue to torture him and literally on his body is written "the power of the king and the church". In other words, it is literally written on his body. By the way, if you want for me to suggest another literary way to look backward at that form of punishment, remember The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka where the machine writes literally on the bodies of the victims. Of course Kafka has lived to see modernity, so the machine ends up eating its own judge, writing on the judge "be just" which I find among Kafka's many hilarious stories. I mean, I find them funny, I am sorry, I am that sick, but I find that another funny