"I ended up not being bored at all as soon as I learnt how to remember things. Sometimes I'd start thinking about my room and, in my imagination, I'd set off from one corner and walk around making a mental note of everything I saw on the way...I'd remember every piece of furniture, every object and on every object, every detail, every mark, crack or chip, and then even the colour or the grain of the wood. At the same time, I'd try not to lose track of my inventory, to enumerate everything. So that, by the end of a few weeks, I could spend hours doing nothing but listing the things in my room...I realized then that a man who'd only lived for a day could easily live for a hundred years in prison."
[The Outsider - Albert Camus]
