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Start
The Start
Nov 13, 1870
.The banker and lawyer make a bet over capital punishment and solitary confinement. .If the lawyer can stay in solitary confinement for 15 years, the banker will pay him 2 million dollars -
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The bet
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first year
the lawyer sufferd and go into depression esp in first years he stared reading adventure books and romance novels and He refused wine and tobacco -
year two
he started reading classical books -
year five
in this year all what he did is writting and he asked for wine and kept drinking wine and eating -
year six
He started to study languages and philosophy -
The letter
He wrote a letter to the banker to check to see if he actually learned the langues currently. -
year ten
He read only the Bible -
last day
The prisoner escaped 5 minutes before being released, and paid.
he noticed that after 15 years of knowledge
