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The Interrogation

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The Interrogation

Amit Majmudar

When they leathered his arm to the armrest and began

like manicurists in a nail salon

he says that he "retreated" from his hand

until the part of him that dwelt there once was gone

and heard no news from his own outer reaches.

In his memoir¹ of those years, he sketches

the tricks he used, one of which was "vision."

Maybe it's better we present his version:

"I imagined my arm as a slope I had to scale,

shaft of the humerus as smooth as shale

but white like bone and giving way like sand

wherever I set foot. I couldn't stand,

couldn't take a breather, or I'd ride my own

disintegration down and end up on

the shore -- which was my hand, my fingernails.

I crested² my shoulder, rested on its knoll³.

I looked down then and saw the pain as men

charging uphill to where I hid my sense

of pain. At once I stomped⁴ a foot to see

the whole arm crack, calve, crash into the sea,

disarticulated, part of me no more.

I did this for the other arm and for

my feet and testicles and eyes until

I found myself on a Pacific atoll

that had no latitude⁵, no longitude⁶.

I built a hut, I scuttled⁷ the one canoe.

I saw a sun that weighed a kiloton

and the power cord by which it swung."

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1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录，自传；记事录
参考例句：
He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。 In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中，她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。

2 crested
adj.有顶饰的，有纹章的，有冠毛的v.到达山顶（或浪峰）( crest的过去式和过去分词 )；到达洪峰，达到顶点
参考例句：
a great crested grebe 凤头?? The stately mansion crested the hill. 庄严的大厦位于山顶。来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 knoll
n.小山，小丘
参考例句：
Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.对于希尔弗来说，爬上那小山丘真不是件容易事。 He crawled up a small knoll and surveyed the prospect.他慢腾腾地登上一个小丘，看了看周围的地形。

4 stomped
v.跺脚，践踏，重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲，重步走出办公室。 She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门，暮暮地走出了屋了。来自辞典例句

5 latitude
n.纬度，行动或言论的自由(范围)，(pl.)地区
参考例句：
The latitude of the island is 20 degrees south.该岛的纬度是南纬20度。 The two cities are at approximately the same latitude.这两个城市差不多位于同一纬度上。

6 longitude
n.经线，经度
参考例句：
The city is at longitude 21°east.这个城市位于东经21度。 He noted the latitude and longitude,then made a mark on the admiralty chart.他记下纬度和经度，然后在航海图上做了个标记。

7 scuttled
v.使船沉没( scuttle的过去式和过去分词 )；快跑，急走
参考例句：
She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 听到他的说话声，她赶紧跑开了。 The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看见警察来了便急忙跑掉。来自《简明英汉词典》