After a time we again heard the lashings of the strap, and the screams of tortured men.
This time it lasted for quite a while. Thus the illusions some of us still held were destroyed one by one,
and then, quite unexpectedly, most of us were overcome by a grim sense of humor.
We knew that we had nothing to lose except our so ridiculously naked lives.
When the showers started to run, we all tried very hard to make fun, both about ourselves and about each other.
After all, real water did flow from the sprays! Apart from that strange kind of humor, another sensation seized us: curiosity.
I have experienced this kind of curiosity before, as a fundamental reaction toward certain strange circumstances.
When my life was once endangered by a climbing accident, I felt only one sensation at the critical moment: curiosity,
curiosity as to whether I should come out of it alive or with a fractured skull or some other injuries.
Cold curiosity predominated even in Auschwitz, somehow detaching the mind from its surroundings, which came to be regarded with a kind of objectivity.
At that time one cultivated this state of mind as a means of protection.
We were anxious to know what would happen next; and what would be the consequence, for example,
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