/tags/solitary-confinement/Recent content in Solitary-Confinement on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-us/stories/1/01/01/the-secrets-of-shackleton-grange-18-a-clearer-view-of-things/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/the-secrets-of-shackleton-grange-18-a-clearer-view-of-things/<p>(story continues from <a href="secretsofshackletongrange17.html"><strong>The Secrets of Shackleton Grange 17: The Party</strong></a>)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 18: A Clearer View of Things</strong></p> <p>When Cathy again saw daylight after the conclusion of the ordeal she and Bethany had shared in the cellar, it was obviously late afternoon. Although the passing of the hours and days was not easy to gauge in her almost continuous state of sensory deprived imprisonment, a quick calculation told her that she had been held here for five days and five nights by this time, which meant that it must be Wednesday. So if Dolores’ assertion that this effort to brainwash both herself and her fellow captive was to commence next week, there were still at least four days in the interim period to be negotiated and survived prior to this form of mental indoctrination being forced upon them. What was going to happen in the meantime? None of the probable scenarios bore too much thinking about.</p>/stories/1/01/01/the-secrets-of-shackleton-grange-19-the-padded-cell/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/the-secrets-of-shackleton-grange-19-the-padded-cell/<p>(story continues from <a href="secretsofshackletongrange18.html"><strong>The Secrets of Shackleton Grange 18: A Clearer View of Things</strong></a>)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 19: The Padded Cell</strong></p> <p>There is a quote, often attributed to Albert Einstein (although there is some dispute over its provenance), which states that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.</p> <p>If this is true, then Cathy would most definitely have been certified by now, as she had by this time spent a week in extreme bondage, and had continually fought her restraints without success, yet still persevered with her attempts to free herself from what she must have by now known were inescapable circumstances. (The irony of this is, of course, that had she been pronounced insane, then the chances are that she would have ended up in a straitjacket and a padded cell, which would bring her full circle back to a situation not unlike that which had caused her to be diagnosed as mentally unstable in the first place).</p>