Digging
There is some story or idea about a man who for a long time digs to get out of his prison cell, only to find that he escaped into a different prison cell. Anyone remember the source of this?
posted by e-kvetcher at 1:32 PM
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The Count of Monte Cristo
from the movie:
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2002_The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/2002_the_count_of_monte_cristo_004.jpg
How timely!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/world/asia/26afghanistan.html?hp
gamzoo, i don't think this is what I was thinking of - in Monte Cristo, he purposefully digs into the other guy's cell. Here I am talking about someone who thinks he is going to escape and instead winds up in a different prison.
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e-kvetcher, In Count of Monte Cristo, Faria did not purposely dig there. it was a mistake. He was trying to escape but went in the wrong direction and ended up in Edmond's cell.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1184/1184-h/1184-h.htm#C2HCH0015
You're right, Aryeh - it's been three decades since I read the book - I guess the memory is not as good as it used to be.
But I think I was thinking of a different work. A bit more philosophically oriented... Unless I imagined the whole thing.
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