Quotes About Pit and Pendulum

He compared the trial to Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum." "Human nerves," he wrote, "even the strongest, have a limited capacity to endure moral torture.

Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.