Guest guest Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Hours later, Felton wakes up to nurses in blinding white uniforms snipping off his clothes and a police officer photographing the wounds in his neck. He sticks his middle finger up at the camera. " Nothing personal, " he tells the cop. " No problem, " the cop replies. " It wasn't personal, " Felton later writes. " It rarely ever is. Cops and convicts vis a vis each other really aren't persons at all. Everything in prison is a symbol, even the guards and the prisoners themselves. And if that emergency room were for me some kind of weird, temporal purgatory with elements of both the exalted and the infernal, angels and demons, then what I had done to get there, though intended to take me out of this life altogether, may have been some kind of blood offering. . . . Maybe to myself. My 'new' self. With these revelations about my lineage I could certainly never go back to what I had been. " you can read the rest of the story at http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1103/coverstory.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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