The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above.

a resultive firmness ariseth from their complication

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, / In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, / Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, / From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.—Book of Hosea 9:1, King James Version