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When William Golding said, "The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite," he was describing a difficult situation in which a person feels trapped. He had been told that he could not have books, but he did have a mind that was just grinding away at regret and remorse, which were causing him a great deal of pain. In this case, the governor was punishing the people on his island by taking away their ability to read.

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