He spent his hours listening to the marble as it bounced and rolled down the room. Then he would grope in the darkness until he found his precious toy.
One day, the prisoner threw his marble upward---but it failed to come down. Only the silence echoed through the darkness. He was deeply disturbed by the vanishing of the marble and his inability to explain the disappearance. Finally he went berserk,pulled out all his hair, and died.
When the prison officials came to move his body, a guard noticed something caught in a huge spider's web in the upper conner of the room.
That's strange, he thought. I wonder how a marble got up there.
To be honest i find the last part hard to believe, i mean did'nt it occur to the guard that maybe it was the prisoner. Or what spiders are attracted to tiny balls?(Hehe, Get it...)...Okay that was a bit lame...
I think the prisoner is justified for his actions a little...i mean the only company he could ever have in that tiny hole was the marble...He couldn't imagine himself just sitting in that cell just staring at darkness, maybe even experiencing a much painful death from poisonous spiders' bites...again that almost doesn't make sense....the pulling of the hair thing is traumatizing...i would probably die of shock for even thinking of doing such a thing...
