“On the inside, all a man thinks about is getting out. Night and day, it’s always there, like an unfulfilled promise-that always indistinct point of time somewhere in the distance when he is no longer in stir. It occupies a man’s head when he is thinking about it, and it occupies his head when it isn’t. The mental pursuit of that future moment is so powerful that he invariably forgets to consider the next question.
What to do when it finally happens.
Because being out with nothing to do and nowhere to go is not that much different from being in. The difference from being inside and being out was that on the inside, a man always has a plan. And that was to get out. Being out robbed him of that objective, and it was in looking for a brand-new objective that he usually got himself into trouble.”
Brad Smith, “All Hat”, 2003, Penguin Canada.
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