I need a new wallet, but I want one exactly the same as my current one, or better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by aeschenkarnos at 8:49 PM on March 6, 2008 (7 comments)

I'm looking for the title and/or author of a story I read years ago. It was about, or had in it, a description of a terrible kind of prison, a vast multilayered cylinder carved inside a mountain, that would rotate slowly around its course from the efforts of the prisoners inside. The only way to free those inside was, according to the story, to keep adding new prisoners to the vacated cells to keep pulling the thing along.
posted to Ask Metafilter by aeschenkarnos at 6:29 PM on December 11, 2007 (14 comments)