1 The poet Ampleforth shambled into the cell.
2 The cold-faced young officer stepped into the cell.
3 There were six prisoners in the cell, men and women.
4 There would be perhaps five seconds before the guard could rush into the cell.
5 The same thought seemed to occur almost simultaneously to everyone in the cell.
6 He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.
7 Sometimes he tried to calculate the number of porcelain bricks in the walls of the cell.
8 His body was flung across the cell and fetched up against the base of the lavatory seat.
9 It then turned out that the plug was defective and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.
10 But just at this moment he flung himself across the floor of the cell and grabbed one of the iron legs that supported the bench.
11 His cell might be at the heart of the building or against its outer wall; it might be ten floors below ground, or thirty above it.
12 They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people.
13 At most, when it is absolutely necessary that someone should be silenced, we are occasionally able to smuggle a razor blade into a prisoner's cell.
14 And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department.
15 At last he stood up, waddled clumsily across the cell, dug down into the pocket of his overalls, and, with an abashed air, held out a grimy piece of bread to the skull-faced man.
16 Ampleforth made one or two uncertain movements from side to side, as though having some idea that there was another door to go out of, and then began to wander up and down the cell.
17 Sometimes he was beaten till he could hardly stand, then flung like a sack of potatoes on to the stone floor of a cell, left to recuperate for a few hours, and then taken out and beaten again.
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