PIT AND PENDULUM
Sir,-In your issue of October 10 you allude to "the man in Poe’s "tale of horror-sweating between the pit and the pendulum." If you read "The Pit
and the Pendulum" you will see that this is somewhat distorted. Actually, the man is tied down beneath the pendulum; and it is not until after the tats have rescued him from that peril by gnawing through the bandage that secures him that he is almost driven into the pit by the walls becoming redhot and closing in on him. By then the manipulators of the pendulum have hauled it up through the ceiling, where he need fear it no longer.
J. F. D.
PATTERSON
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 5
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116PIT AND PENDULUM New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 5
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