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To
Marcel Xystobam
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I SUPPOSE there are few civilian1 prisons in the Near East more humanely2 conducted and governed than the cosmopolitan3 Citadel4 of Salonika. Yet the Citadel is most inhuman5. Men rot there: their brains rot, and their bodies become flabby, sickly and inert6.
If, as a casual and inquiring visitor, you enter through the archway, you will be told to go to the right and then make a sudden turn to the left into a kind of cage which leads you to a staircase; mounting the stairs, you reach a platform placed high in the true centre of a circle. The circle below you is divided into four roofless segments: in one segment are Greeks; in another, Bulgars; in the third, Turks; in the fourth, Armenians, Montenegrins, Spanish Jews, and men of many other nationalities. The prisoners are separated by high walls; for if they mingled8 with each other they would fight, and perhaps kill; but well-behaved victims of law, if they choose, may leave for a short time one segment for another.
The Citadel is inhuman because the men living there are not compelled to work. Any work is better than none. Even a treadmill9 is a boon10 compared with everlasting11 indolence. I have been there many times and, fascinated, have watched young men sitting with their backs to the walls, staring with unfocussed eyes at—nothing. Always staring at nothing and, no doubt, thinking of nothing, and hoping nothing and regretting nothing.
For this reason the{120}y decay.
Euripitos Cavalcini—half Greek, half Italian—had not yet recovered from the shock of his arrest, trial and sentence. Three months ago he was one of the proudest men in Salonika—nay, one of the most overbearing, one of the most
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reconciliation
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bondage
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sinuously
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