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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There was a short story I read by one of the great Russian authors (name escapes me atm). A young man made a bet with a banker that he would spend 10 years in solitary confinement and be provided with any reading material he asked for. If he could endure it the whole 10 years, the banker would reward him with a handsome amount of money.

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He sticks it out for nearly the entire period and leaves the night before the time is up.

Fantastic story, thought about it pretty regularly throughout college.

If this rings any bells, I'd love to be reminded of the name!

Edit: Nvm, I found it! The Bet by Anton Chekhov

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a Twilight Zone episode like this. Rich person bets person 2 can't speak for some time. Maybe a year. The rich person tries to let person 2 out of the bet, but >!person 2 cut our his tongue or something!< So he wouldn't lose. Rich person >!didn't have the money to pay though!<.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of comments here have what I assume are non-functional spoiler tags.." < ! " without the space..But they don't make the bars appear, like some other spoiler tagged comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Did my spoiler tag not show up or something? And yeah, I noticed some I think double spoiler tag it. I click to show the spoiler and says spoiler first then the actual content. Idk.