In the second year the piano was silent in the lodge, and the prisoner asked only for the classics. in the fifth year music was audible again, and the prisoner asked for wine. those who watched
him through the window said that all that year he spent doing nothing but eating and drinking and lying on his bed, frequently yawning and angrily talking to himself he did not read books
sometimes at night he would sit down to write, he would spend hours writing, and in the morning tear up all that he had written more than once he could be heard crying
in the second half of the sixth year the prisoner began zealously [definition enthusiastically, with great energy studying languages, philosophy, and history. he threw himself eagerly into these
studies--so much so that the banker had enough to do to get him the books he ordered in the course of four years some six hundred volumes were procured (definitionobtained carefully at his
request. it was during this period that the banker received the following letter from his prisoner
"my dear jailer, i write you these lines in six languages show them to people who know the languages let them read them if they find not one mistake i implore you to fire a shot in the garden
that shot will show me that my efforts have not been thrown away the geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages, but the same flame burns in them all oh, if you only knew
what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them! the prisoner's desire was fulled the banker ordered two shots to be fired in the garden
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