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From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:21:04 -0700
Adam Lefstein:
> nathan,
> i'm not familiar with the term (supplice), except that it is french
commonly
> translated into english as "torture". what is the difference (aside from
> one term being french and the other english)?
> adam
I suppose my supplice/torture distinction may have been a little messy, but
"supplice" refers more to torture as a spectacle. Torturing prisoners in
private cells is torture, minus the spectacular element that would make it
"supplice."
See Ch 1 of Discipline and Punish
~Nate