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title: '2010-11-07-emu'
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I remember I was there. Everyone was there - you were there, all the
officials were there, it really wasn't missed.
They hung the man from the roof because the room was too small for
gallows. The concrete ceiling had been repaired with steel, and rope was
easily threaded through the gaps between. Seats had been taken from the
offices nearby and placed in rows in front of the rope, and everyone was
assembled on time.
The prisoner had been taken up through the lift-system from the dank
lower levels and was walked through our section to the room -
prohibitively chained, mind you, so the journey must've been slow.
You *must* remember, he was hung dead in front of everyone! The man
twisted and writhed at moments but his purple face with the mask removed
showed he was dead.
Everyone remembers, how can you not remember? While they were finishing
his papers with the Commissioner the corpse started groaning and
frothing at the mouth - how is this not jogging your memory? The sparks
and the sound of electric saws escaping from the corpse's lungs and its
violently coiling spine stick in the minds of all the officials -
something's happened to you, Plel.