Edifying Pain
Prison sentences are meant to be a serious form of punishment, yet many inmates later declare that their time inside was the best thing to ever happen to them. Serious writers like Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn have written great big books about the experience, after having been somehow transformed by the extraordinary suffering they endured during the ye…
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