The Last Sleep

When he returned to the yard and came to sit on a bench to light a cigarette, he felt pain in his back, knees, and spine all at once. It was as if they had been on strike during this time, and the duty of feeling pain was suspended. He had experience. He understood that the real pain was in the soul, but when the soul has not yet properly learned how to suffer, it resorts to the bones, back, and knees.