Escape

Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff: “You do not realise your own situation. You are in a prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how to escape? It is necessary to tunnel under a wall. One man can do nothing. But let us suppose there are ten or twenty men – if they work in turn and if one covers another they can complete the tunnel and escape.

Furthermore, no one can escape from prison without the help of those who have escaped before. Only they can say in what way escape is possible or can send tools, files or whatever may be necessary.”

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Lister: [Moving to the cell window] “There’s got to be a way out. There hasn’t been a prison built that could hold Derek Custer. Why don’t we scrape away this mortar here, slide one of these bricks out, then using a rope weaved from strands of this hessian, rip up a kind of a pulley system so that when a guard comes in, using it as a trip wire, gets laid out, and we put Rimmer in the guard’s uniform, he leads us out, we steal some swords, and fight our way back to the ‘bug…”

Kryten: “Or we could use the teleporter.”

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