The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum2009

Genre: Horror, Thriller
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish In… more »



JB Divay:
The pendulum represents all that is sacred in life. The rising and setting of the sun, the motion of the waves, the push and pull of tides, all the forces that are beyond our control. It's pure metronomy. We even have our own clocks. The pendulum deep inside, counting down each second until the day we die. Until we enter the pit of eternal damnation.

Jason:
Obsessing with time like that isn't healthy. It can make you go crazy.

JB Divay:
You don't know the half of it.

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