QUESTION:

How many days could you last in solitary confinement?

Ohhhh...

I can't go there willingly- this question has me kicking and screaming at the mere thought.

I can do solitary - I can live solitary for ever if need be - long as I have freedom to move. The minute you deny me this... you place me within my biggest fear: Confinement.

Let's give it a try. First, though, would come the question: "Does solitary also mean having NO items with you?"

If so- I'd not only not last, I'd simply not go. Period.

... If I could take some books and something to write with/on... it maybe changes things?

Hmmm... Maybe a week? I'd spend the better part of it devouring every book- not leisurely flirting with the pages, I mean getting in there and not stopping till I read "THE END". When I'd get to the end of that marathon reading session and no books were left... I'd write. Mull some maybe. Write some more-

^Who am I fucking kidding?

At some point during that 'week' (and probably within a second of my entering) I'd look up and around. And see the walls. And understand: I cannot live a minute within them. Panic - what I'd have been hiding whether in the words of others or my own if I'd lasted long enough to get to that point - it would say hello. In a very, very nasty way.

I think I'd probably rather prefer to kill myself.

I can't do solitary confinement. I even screwed up trying to imagine it.

How long could you last?