Although I did not actually end up in Hell on Jan. 1, I did spend my break in a good deal of snot-clotted misery, the details of which I won t indulge you. But being bed-ridden from the flu gave me too much time to think. And when that turned sour, I began to read. One of the more interesting books I read over winter break was Michel Foucault s Discipline and Punish. And, of course, that prison apparatus is a direct descendent of the pillory.
Physical restraint is mental rather than physical anguish.